ISIG has published its report for January, February and March 2023 on occupational homicides.

According to the report, 130 workers died in March, and 463 workers lost their lives in the first three months of 2023. This means that at least 5 workers die every day.

ISIG said it established the number of deaths by getting “67 percent of information from the national press, and 33 percent from information we obtained directly from workers’ colleagues, families, occupational safety experts, workplace doctors, unions and local press.”

Worker deaths were registered mostly in Istanbul (76), followed by Semsûr (65), Hatay (36), Maraş (16), Bursa (13) and Kocaeli (12).

While the two Maraş-centered earthquakes were the leading causes of death with 24 percent of the total, 19 percent of the deaths were caused by traffic accidents and 13 percent by falling.

37 of the workers who died were women and 426 were men. 5 of the dead were children and 24 immigrants and refugees. When broken down by business lines, 72 deaths occurred in construction/road works, 69 in accommodation, 52 in transportation, 40 in agriculture and forestry, and 39 in the chemical and tire industry.