59 workers died in work related accidents
59 workers died in work related accidents
According to the monthly accident on workplace report of Istanbul Occupational Health and Safety Assembly (ÝSÝGM), 59 workers lost their lives in Turkey in the month of March.
As work related deaths are mainly affecting the sectors of construction, energy and mining, the increase in the number of workers’ death last month was caused by the death of eleven construction workers who lost their lives in a fire which broke out in the tent of workers of a shopping center construction area in Esenyurt district of Istanbul.
27 workers in construction sector lost their lives throughout the country last month when five other workers in energy sector died as a result of an explosion of dam shutters.
Landslide and poisoning in mining sector led to the death of five mineworkers in March when the number unassigned teachers who committed a suicide rose to 22. On 15 March, 30 year-old English teacher Esen Çelik killed himself jumping off the fifth stock of an apartment building in Alaþehir district of Manisa.
According to records compiled by the Turkish Parliament, 19 of last month’s occupational deaths were lived in Istanbul, four each in Gaziantep and Kocaeli and three each in Denizli and Muðla. Workers who lost their lives in occupational accidents mainly consisted of migrant construction workers.
The significant demand for nonskilled, low skilled and temporary workers and entrance of Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKÝ) and Turkish construction companies the foreign markets are the main reasons for the high rate in migrant construction workers’ deaths, stated Istanbul Occupational Health and Safety Assembly and made the following evaluation; “Migrant construction workers constitute a stock for the construction sector which forms the essential and stable area of traditionally unsecured working and almost utterly serves as subcontractor. This situation increasingly threatens the life safety of migrant construction workers.”
As work related deaths are mainly affecting the sectors of construction, energy and mining, the increase in the number of workers’ death last month was caused by the death of eleven construction workers who lost their lives in a fire which broke out in the tent of workers of a shopping center construction area in Esenyurt district of Istanbul.
27 workers in construction sector lost their lives throughout the country last month when five other workers in energy sector died as a result of an explosion of dam shutters.
Landslide and poisoning in mining sector led to the death of five mineworkers in March when the number unassigned teachers who committed a suicide rose to 22. On 15 March, 30 year-old English teacher Esen Çelik killed himself jumping off the fifth stock of an apartment building in Alaþehir district of Manisa.
According to records compiled by the Turkish Parliament, 19 of last month’s occupational deaths were lived in Istanbul, four each in Gaziantep and Kocaeli and three each in Denizli and Muðla. Workers who lost their lives in occupational accidents mainly consisted of migrant construction workers.
The significant demand for nonskilled, low skilled and temporary workers and entrance of Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKÝ) and Turkish construction companies the foreign markets are the main reasons for the high rate in migrant construction workers’ deaths, stated Istanbul Occupational Health and Safety Assembly and made the following evaluation; “Migrant construction workers constitute a stock for the construction sector which forms the essential and stable area of traditionally unsecured working and almost utterly serves as subcontractor. This situation increasingly threatens the life safety of migrant construction workers.”
