Sentence examples for locked exit from inspiring English sources

And even when inspectors are tough, factory managers find ways to trick them and hide serious violations, like child labor or locked exit doors.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A prominent factory monitoring group heavily financed by industry gave a clean bill of health to a Pakistani apparel plant last month, just weeks before a fire engulfed the premises and killed nearly 300 workers, many of them trapped behind locked exit doors.

Witnesses said he had been one of those who had struggled, unsuccessfully, to open a locked exit door on the ninth floor until the flames overwhelmed him.

For the past two weeks they have been on public view at the Javits Federal Building at 26 Federal Plaza, where they are in a corner by a locked exit door.

Then he tries to picture how his grandmother and the aunts succumbed, guessing from how badly their bodies were burned that they must have been squeezed against a locked exit door on the ninth floor by the crush of panicked workers fleeing the flames.

Unsafe conditions, like locked exits and barred windows, made the death tolls much higher.

Level 1 violations of Fire Department codes include hazardous conditions like furniture in hallways, inadequate rubbish storage and locked exits.

Last month, in an echo of Triangle, 21 workers in Bangladesh died in a fire at a garment factory with locked exits.

In the monitoring business, one of the most contentious issues is confidentiality, and whether inspectors should be obliged to inform the public about poor or perilous conditions, like locked exits.

No summonses were issued as a result of that inspection, but the police said they had issued 15 summonses to the club since February for a range of violations, including underage drinking and locked exits.

MOSCOW, Dec. 9 — The death toll in a fire at a drug treatment hospital early Saturday rose to 45, all of them women, and Russian officials said that they died because they were trapped by locked exits and locked window grilles as toxic smoke suffocated them.