At least 249 workers lose their lives in April

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The Health and Safety Labor Watch (İSİG) has released its monthly report on occupational homicides. The İSİG report has shown that at least 249 workers lost their lives in April 2021, while at least 735 workers lost their lives in the first four months of this year.

Some highlights from the report include the following:

Details from the report

When the occupational homicides are considered by month, it is seen that at least 202 workers lost their lives in January, at least 193 workers lost their lives in February, at least 144 workers lost their lives in March and at least 249 workers lost their lives in April 2021.

Of the 249 workers who lost their lives in April, 214 workers deceased were wage earners (workers and civil servants) and 35 deceased workers were working on their own behalf (farmers and shopkeepers).

While 19 of the deceased were women, 230 were men. The occupational homicides of women took place in the agricultural sector, trade, education, healthcare and municipal affairs.

Eight child workers lost their lives. Their occupational homicides occured in the sectors of agriculture, construction and accommodation.

95 deceased workers were at and over the age of 51. They were farmers and shopkeepers as well as workers of agriculture, mining, chemistry, forestry, trade, bureau, education, construction, energy, transportation, healthcare, sports, security and municipal affairs.

11 migrant/refugee workers lost their lives in April 2021. Five were from Syria, five were from Pakistan and one was from Bulgaria.

Of the deceased workers, 24 were the members of a union. The unionized workers were working in the sectors of mining, chemistry, education, bureau, metal, shipbuilding, healthcare and municipality.

The highest number of deaths occurred in trade/bureau/education, agriculture/forestry, construction/road, municipal/general affairs, healthcare, transportation, accommodation, metal, security and mining.

The most frequent causes of death were COVID-19, being crushed/trapped under debris, road/shuttle bus accidents, falling from a higher place, drowning/suffocating, explosion/burning and suicide.

In April, the highest number of COVID-19 deaths occurred in trade/bureau/education, healthcare, municipal/general affairs and security.

Deaths by province

While 39 workers lost their lives in İstanbul, 15 workers died in Kocaeli, 12 workers in İzmir, eight workers died in Ankara, 7 workers each in Antep, Hatay, Konya, Malatya, Mersin, Samsun, Tekirdağ and Zonguldak, six workers each in Adana and Manisa, five workers each in Bursa, Osmaniye and Urfa, four workers each in Afyon, Aydın, Çanakkale, Eskişehir, Kayseri, Kütahya and Sakarya, three workers each in Adıyaman, Balıkesir, Bartın, Edirne, Elazığ, Erzincan, Isparta and Karaman, 2 workers each in Çankırı, Denizli, Diyarbakır, Giresun, Kahramanmaraş, Kilis, Muğla, Nevşehir, Siirt and Sivas and one worker died in Ağrı, Amasya, Antalya, Bilecik, Bolu, Burdur, Çorum, Gümüşhane, Karabük, Kırklareli, Mardin, Niğde, Ordu, Rize, Şırnak, Tunceli, Uşak, Yalova, Brazil and France.

249 workers who died in April 2021

Mehmet Sıddık İmaç, Mehmet Emin Aslan, Ahmet Aslan, Narin Büyükçay, Saadet Karataş, Remziye Büyükçay, Musa Akkaya, Sameddin Çiftçi, Baran Üstün, Ali Yapıcı, Şaban Arslan, Rammdan Alahmad, Ayşe El Muhammed, Ziya Kan, Hayrullah Lülleci, Hüseyin Salhan, Mehmet Nafiz Akel, Ahmet Tartan, Arzu Oruç, Suat Özacarlı, Sergen Köse, Mahmut Sarı, Hasan Bıyıklı, Basri Yıldırım, Servan Ercan, Adem Kunt, Eyüp Taş, Mehmet Taşkın, Ferdi Alan, Murat Dermen, Cemil Kaçar, Ziya Şimşek, Ufuk Gündoğan, Cafer Özdemir, Mehmet Yılmaz, Müşfik Veysel Erdoğan, Yusuf Babaç, Ahmet Çelik, Halil Bakar, Salif Zıvalı, Bayram Gökgöz, Cebrail Uçar, Naci Şekerci, Murat Aygül, Mehmet Teymur, Kerim Şişman, Mehmet Ünsal, Alperen Bayandur, Aydın Saldıran, Soner Toros, Tayfun Köstekçi, Metin Türkyılmaz, Osman Aktaş, Hakan Arslan, Gökhan Bekir Akdeniz, Adil Bayram, Yalçın Demir, Cemil Emran, Ökkeş Ağca, Hatice Işık, Yener Koşvar, Ayşe Demir, Bülent Aba, Mustafa Danacı, Tuğba Bekel, Nizamettin Doğan, Gazi Sarı, Mehmet Yiğit, Musa Yılmaz, Tolgahan Necati Özer, Murat Akmermer, Seyithan Yenigün, Eylem Apaydın, Ersoy Erdem, Samet Konak, Veysi Pekdoğan, Haydar Tüney, Ali Yıldırım, Murat Bozkurt, Resul Güvercin, Murat Nuri Yorulmaz, Hüseyin Berktaş, Kemal Berktaş, Fatih Korgancı, Fatma Gürsoy, Mehmet Şahin, Engin Gündüz, İzzet Koçak, Rahim Dayangaç, Lokman Özkan, Haluk Gündüzöz, Abdulkadir Bozdağ, Göksel Süleyman, Ahmet İçyer, İsmail Sezer, Fedai Kuşçu, Mehmet Özdemir, Mecit Keskin, Enes Kurcan, Filiz Soyuçetin, İsmail Yaslı, Barış Kırklar, Ramazan Girgin, Refik Yılmaz, İsmail Özçeri, Aziz Akgül, Çetin Özmetin, İsmail Gök, Alaaddin Erkal, Doğan Uzun, Yakup Sevinç, Nizamettin Uysal, Berrin Gür, Adem Gül, Gül Öykü Bilecen, Sadiye Durusoy Yağcı, Caner Erdoğan, Mustafa Demirel, Bahattin Kaya, İsmail Bayrak, Kemal Oruç, Coşkun Akdoğan, Çetin Çataltepe, Mesut Tunç, Ali D., Adem Bozkurt, Ahmet Aydın, Bülent Pamuk, Süleyman Ilıkkan, Levent Aydın, Bilal Duyar, Talip Karakaya, Ahmet Çilingir, Osman Kaya, Mevlüt Ödemiş, Oktay Karadağ, Muzaffer Ateş, Nabi Reşo, Özkan Ataş, Azatcan Gündoğdu, Emre Sançar, Adnan Kılıç, Zekeriya Mutlu Kütükoğlu, Habip Şen, Hüseyin Yaman, Fahri Şenses, Emrah Yurtaçan, Erdal Acar, Hüsam Bacaksız, Mustafa Balbal, Ömürhan Türkoğlu, Kadir Kalyon, Umut Sarı, Ali Çiftçi, Ahmet El Süleyman, Mustafa Şimşek, Hayrettin Şahin, Recep Yakışık, Emrah Katırcı, Bora Alpago, Niyazi Gümüş, Mustafa İsot, A.E., Bingöl Polat, Hakan Pektaş, Hüseyin Yörük, Atahac Vasilev, Nihat Küçükgüzel, Hayrettin Keskin, Ahmet Karaman, Kadir Akıncı, Mehmet Dişçeken, Hüseyin Atlayan, Sait Şapaloğlu, Fikret Özdoğan, Alper Danış, Faruk Ekici, Fatih Dönmez, Erdem Bulat, Halit Yılmaz, Feyruz Karaali, Nurettin Kaya, Orhan Balcı, Evren Demirbağ, Yaşar Atik, Yusuf Kılıç, Mustafa Çiftçi, Hakan Sirek, Kadircan Özkan, Vehbi Demirkol, Binnaz Aksoy, Hikmet Bektaş, Nurcan Doğan, Emrah Yılmaz, Seycan Alan, Ercan Usta, Yaşar Gürlek, Savaş Küçükoğlu, Serap Yılmaz Yağcı, Erkan Durak, Derviş Kılıç, Tolga İdiz, Can Cüneyt Ömeroğlu, Esat Delihasan, Samet Bilir, Selçuk Turan, Orhan Murat Kayı, Serdar Gökhan Bedir, Ramazan Ünal, Soner Hayta, Ramazan Duran, Hasan Akbaş, Ozan Gökçe, Sait Yerleşmiş, Muzaffer İstifçi, Mustafa Dönmez, Ali Gül, Mehmet Duman, Sefa Özer, Müslüm Yıldırım, Metin Yalçın, Sefa Sarı, Birol Erdin, Hüsnü Dal, Günay Mert, Müslüm Görenler, Cemil Erdöl, Özgün Öztürk, Telat Zilayas, Mustafa Avdan, Halil Arpacıoğlu, Zafer Gündüz, İsmail Kaya, Nazım Kartal, Mehmet Bahar, Serkan Özgürbüz, Mehmet Zeki Yalçın, Hüseyin Zengin, Bayram Kızılyar, Süleyman Hasoğlu, Remzi Aykanat and eight workers who could not be identified... (EMK/SD)