Plantation employers liable for compensation when employer provided housing collapse causes death or injury, subject to specified exclusions. Employers in plantations are liable to pay compensation under section 76 and the Sixth Schedule when employer provided housing collapses causing death or injury, unless the collapse is solely the occupant's fault or a natural calamity. 'Worker' includes persons employed for hire or reward, including contract workers engaged over sixty days, across skilled and unskilled roles, but excludes medical officers, employees above a wage threshold set by the appropriate government, managerial or administrative employees, and temporary construction or maintenance workers.