146 workers, including 13 female workers, lost their lives at workplaces across Turkey in July 2021, according to a report released by the Laborer Health and Occupational Safety Assembly (İSİG).

News Center- The Laborer Health and Occupational Safety Assembly (İşçi Sağlığı ve İş Güvenliği-İSİG) released its July 2021 report. At least 146 workers, including 13 female workers, lost their lives at workplaces across Turkey in July, İSİG said in its report.

The report says 116 of the killed workers were paid workers and 30 were working on their own behalf. Killed women workers were working in the sectors of agriculture, mining, and healthcare. Eight of the killed workers were refugees; four were from Syria, two were from Turkmenistan, one was from Afghanistan and one was from South Korea.

Only two of the killed workers were unionized

The sectors with the highest number of deaths were agriculture/forestry, transportation, trade/office/education, mining, metal, energy, municipality/general, chemistry, and accommodation, the report says.

In the report, İSİG highlighted that 24 agricultural workers and 21 farmers lost their lives and that almost one occupational homicide happened every day in construction sites. Only two of the killed workers were unionized; they worked in the education and metal sectors.

Causes of death

The İSİG announced the causes of death in the report; the most common causes of death were traffic/shuttle accidents, falling from a height places, crush, heart attack, electric shock, explosion/fire, and violence. One mining worker died due to Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. 12 agricultural workers and 11 transportation workers were killed in traffic/shuttle accidents. 14 of the deaths in the construction sector were caused by falling from a height.

10 of the killed workers were children

Ten of the killed workers were children; they worked in the sectors of agriculture, construction, energy, transportation, according to the report. Istanbul was the city with the highest number of occupational homicides