ISIG said that at least 301 workers lost their lives in January and February.

The Occupational Health and Safety Observatory (ISIG) released its report on deaths in the workplace for January and February. ISIG reported that 119 workers lost their lives in January and at least 182 workers in February.

In January, the report said that 32 percent of occupational homicides were due to traffic accidents, 19 percent to crushing and 19 percent to falling from height. The sector with the highest number of occupational homicides is construction, while Istanbul is one of the cities with the highest number of deaths.

ISIG underlined that all workers who died in the workplace due to the Maraş-centered earthquakes in February or in the region hit by the seism (due to activities such as temporary assignments) would be considered occupational homicides (in the official term, work accidents). In other words, most of the deaths in February occurred in the earthquake region.

According to the report, 53 percent of worker deaths in February occurred in Adiyaman (Semsûr), Maraş and Hatay, all earthquake zones.