Fifty five workers have died in the workplace or form work-related injuries in March according to a report released by the Worker Health and Work Security Assembly.

Most deaths occurred in the construction sector (15), steel industry (6), mining (6) and chemistry (5).

Most of the casualties occurred in the provinces of Istanbul (10), Mugla (5), Izmir (4),Sakarya (4).

According to a recent report released by Turkey's main statistics institute, child workers are are currently 893,000 (out of the 15,247,000 children between 6 and 17 years old) or 20.6 percent of entire population in Turkey.

Ahmet Yıldız (13) was working as a tea boy at Koç Plastik firm in Adana's Yüreğir district and earning 100 liras (roughly 40 euros) per week. On March 14, only two months since he started working, he was transferred to a hospital by his boss Ali Koç who claimed that a vehicle had hit the child. Doctors later discovered that Ahmet Yıldız was killed by a press machine at work.

The report listed poverty, immigration, inaccess to education, paid education and cheap labor as leading factors behind child labor.

According to statistics released by Turkey's labor ministry, at least 12,418 workers were killed in the workplace between 2001 and 2011.

And according to the Worker Health and Work Security Assembly at least 878 workers died from work-related injuries in 2012.