Apparently ship breaking is one of the most dangerous professionals with a lot of casualties. Is it not just a reverse process? Is it laxed H&S in less fortunate countries?
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When they put ships together, they build big modules and stitch them together via welding. They also do it with tons of ship specific jigs and frames so things don’t move out of alignment. Then they stuff the insides with all the delicate stuff that the heat of welding would melt and connect it all together.
After a ship gets old and broken down, it gets sent to the breakers. The owners want to do things as cheap as possible so they send it to other less fortunate countries so it’s no longer their problem^™ anymore.
The lack of heavy equipment, the limited knowledge of the ship was put together, and not wanting to spend good money for jigs that will just get used for scrap means lots of manual labor with nasty materials, and corresponding injuries.
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