Kabir Steel Mill Ltd, a shipbreaking yard of KSRM industrial group that faced a temporary shutdown order over a workplace death, closed on Tuesday.
The industries ministry issued the shutdown order on Monday, and the yard was not supposed to operate on Tuesday.
However, it ran operations on Tuesday and closed in the afternoon at the end of the workday.
Locals said the presence of workers at the yard on Tuesday was normal while the sound of cutting iron could be heard.
A letter signed by the industries ministry’s assistant secretary, Sohela Nasreen, on Monday ordered the yard’s temporary closure. The local administration and law enforcement agencies were instructed to take necessary action in this regard.
Earlier on Tuesday, Sitakunda Upazila Nirbahi Officer Mohammad Sahadat Hossain said a copy of the letter had arrived in his office but he had not read it yet.
He said directives in the letter would be implemented.
A worker died in an accident at the yard at Baro Aulia area of Sitakunda in Chattogram late at night on February 1. The victim was Ariful Islam Sujan, 27, a cutter man.
This was the first accidental death of this year in the shipbreaking sector.
A committee headed by the industries ministry’s joint secretary, Mohammad Nuruzzaman, was formed to probe the accident. The committee was asked to submit a report within seven working days.
Abdullah Al Shakib Mubarrat, deputy inspector general of the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments and a member of the probe committee, said the yard would be closed once the investigation began.
