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Labour Day: 121 workplace deaths in FY18 at India's top companies

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Amritha Pillay Mumbai
There have been 121 industrial deaths in FY18, according to a compilation of annual statistics from 13 biggest companies in India. 

The data is based on information gleaned from 19 annual filings by companies, three applications under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, and e-mails that were sent to two state-run and nine private sector companies. The data is available with a lag, hence the latest updated list is for the deaths in FY18. Data for FY19 will be disclosed with annual reports well into FY20.

Financial services, information technology firms and companies, which did not have the data for FY18, were