Around 5 a.m. on May 7, Shabbir Masih, a 33-year-old Christian sanitation worker in Pakistan, died after inhaling toxic gases while doing a dangerous job his supervisors forced him to do. Masih died working inside a 25-foot-deep mainline sewer operated by the Water and Sanitation Authority (WASA). According to his widow, Masih was fully aware of the danger posed by the work. He refused to descend into the sewer for three consecutive days. On the final night, WASA officials arrived at his home at 10 p.m. and took him away. “He knew it was a death trap,” his widow said.