On the morning of 24 April 2013, thousands of garment workers were ordered back into a building that engineers had declared unsafe just hours earlier. At 08:57 a.m., Rana Plaza collapsed in under two minutes, killing 1,134 people and injuring more than 2,500 in the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the global garment industry. In this episode of Compact Disasters, we examine how illegal construction, ignored warnings, and international supply-chain pressure combined to turn a preventable failure into a mass grave, and why Rana Plaza still matters more than a decade later.

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