128 Workers Killed on the Job in November
According to a report released by Worker Health and Work Security Assembly, at least 128 workers including 5 immigrants, 5 children and 10 women were killed from work-related injuries in November.
Among 10 women included Rukiye Şimşek (42), a house worker who fell to death as she was cleaning windows on 4th floor of a building in Istanbul.
Some of the highlights from the report are as follows:
The distribution of workplace mortalities according to sector listed as follows: Construction (31 with 23 due to falls), transportation (13), agriculture (18), textile/leather (13), trade (12) and mining (10).
* While traffic accidents left 49 workers dead, 35 were killed due to crushes and collapses and 26 died because of falls.
* While not listed as cause of death for labor sectors, Yılmaz Pehlivan, a leather worker, died on the job of lung cancer while working at a factory in Zeytinburnu district, Istanbul.
* On November 5, 7 textile workers died due to a traffic accident in Bozova district, Şanlıurfa.
* On November 7, 5 trade workers died due to a fire in Gaziantep. According to a preliminary report by Chamber of Electric Engineers, the building had no fire or emergency exits. It was also noted that it was not suitable for manifacture.
5 immigrant, 5 child workers
* Alim Koç (33), a teacher, committed suicide due to a 8 year long wait for post assignment. Alim marked the 37th case who suffered from capitalist education system.
* 4 workers from Syria (Hacı Mehmet Dolihammor, Bilal, Üveysi Derihamar, Vaisa Dail Hamiossa) and 1 worker from China (Qighu Li) died.
* The sectors and information on deceased child workers included: Orhan Sürer (13, construction, died in Diyarbakır province), Hasan Bakdur (16, agriculture, died in Şanlıurfa), Muharrem Dursun (14, retail, died in Gaziantep), Salih Eroğlu (17, retail, died in Gaziantep) and Gökhan Örüç (17, construction, died in Konya).
The list of casualties
İlyas Karadeniz, İrfan Topçu, Aziz Baltacı, Ali Ezdar, Süleyman Ezdar, Beytullah Ölmez, Emine Tıraş, Şükran Çelik, Çetin Batır, Himmet Aydın, Hasan Bakdur, Dursun Irmak, Zeynep Kutlu, Ethem Eker, Abdurrahman Kıllı, İsmail Kıllı, Hamdi Yılmaz, Mesut Hazır, Fikret Baltalı, Murat Solak, Naci Güledağı, Mustafa Asal, Ali Gümüştaş, Mehmet Siraç Bilge, Ali Abay, Qighu Li, Ramazan Kaya, Murat Aydın, Hasan Kar, Ali Tuncer, İbrahim Uzun, Hakan Kuruçayırlı, Muharrem Dursun, Salih Eroğlu, Osman Efe, Yılmaz Pehlivan, İsmail Gemci, Mehmet Alakırık, Ayfer Toprak, Hacı Mehmet Dolihammor, Bilal Kılınç, Muhammet Bozan Tuncer, Bilal, Üveysi Derihamar, Vaisa Dail Hamiossa, Ramazan Çınar, Soner Zeki, Serhat Alp, Hüdaverdi Tetik, Ali Saklavacı, Harbinaz Ekinci, Ferhat Dündar, Hasan Yıldırgan, Rasim Uysal, Melek Yoldaş, Emin Ceylan, Ömer Büyük, Serdar Özgürol, Bayram Yılmaz, Alim Koç, Uğur Bükü, Necip Alakuş, Servet Cömert, Cemal Evcen, Hüseyin Özdemir, Ramazan Kadıoğlu, Mesut Kıraç, Murtaza Ekinci, Suat Bahar, Alican Ö., Nuh Toprakseven, Mehmet Er, İbrahim Çalışkan, Bahri Tozmaz, Nahsan Bulut, Onur Keydal, Necati Tagay, Zeki Koç, Murat Kurt, Sinan Duman, Bekir Aydın, Mehmet Emin Çoban, Orhan Sürer, Oğuzhan Karayiğit Ulaş, Nizamettin Önelge, Veysel Balkı, Gökhan Örüç, Yaşar Eken, Yalçın Kızılkaya, Erdal Şahin, S.Ş., Emin Vatansever, İbrahim Yiğit, Orhan Özbek, Hasan Okumuş, Musa Şimşek, Osman Rusvay, Mesut Kara, Yusuf Vurgun, Ali Aslan, Zafer Tasasız, Faruk Aytaçoğlu, Murat Aytar, Gökmen Sütçüoğlu, Mustafa Özoğul, Yaşar Aykut, Rıdvan Dörtçeker, Süleyman Yılmaz, Gökhan Şaki, Mehmet Eken, Süleyman Karaçizmeli, Yusuf Adalı, Dursun Demircan, Seçkin Çetinkaya, Gizem Ovalı, Mehmet Ilımlı, Mehmet Ali Uğur, İbrahim Güneşli, Mehmet Pektaş, Ali Köse, Rukiye Şimşek, Nuray Gedik, Mürsel Doğu, Özgür Kılıç, Alparslan Tunalı Berberler, Ali Demir and two unidentified. (NV/BM)