At least 435 workers including 61 women were killed and 1,176 injured in different types of occupational accidents and violence in workplaces across the country in 2007, said the Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies in Dhaka on Thursday. Of them, 291 workers were killed and 550 injured, mostly in occupational accidents last year, said BILS while revealing an annual survey report at a press conference at its office. The secretary-general of the BILS, Nazrul Islam Khan, said the highest number of causalities were in the construction sector. About 105 construction workers were killed, 103 in their workplaces. The BILS carried out the survey on the basis of reports published in fourteen national dailies last year. The second highest number of casualties was found in the sea where the fishermen died and or were injured by the cyclone and pirates. At least fifty-five fishermen died and fifty were injured in the deep sea. The third highest number of killings happened in garment sector where 39 workers were killed and 616 injured. Nineteen female workers were sexually harassed. A total of 61 female workers were killed last year, most of them domestic servants, said the report. The BILS's official, Syed Sultan Uddin Ahmed, gave the introductory speech at the press conference, and researcher Kohinoor Begum and others were present on the occasion.