1,708 workers lost their lives in work-related homicides this year
According to data from the Workers' Health and Occupational Safety (İSİG) Assembly, at least 164 workers lost their lives in October, bringing the total number of workers who died in work-related homicides in the first 11 months of 2024 to 1,708. In November, the highest number of deaths occurred in the construction, transportation, and agriculture sectors.
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The Workers' Health and Occupational Safety (İSİG) Assembly has released its report on work-related homicides for November 2024. According to the report, at least 164 workers lost their lives in work-related homicides in November, and at least 1,708 workers have died in the first eleven months of the year.
The distribution of work-related homicides by industry in November was as follows:
42 workers in the construction and road sector; 23 workers in the transportation sector; 20 laborers in the agriculture and forestry sector (10 workers and 10 farmers); 13 workers in the metal sector; 8 workers in the trade, office, education, and cinema sector; 7 workers in the energy sector; 6 workers in the food and sugar sector; 6 workers in the municipal and general services sector; 5 workers in the mining sector; 5 workers in the wood and paper sector; 5 workers in the health and social services sector; 4 workers in the hospitality and entertainment sector; 3 workers in the textile and leather sector; 3 workers in the defense and security sector; 2 workers in the cement, earth, and glass sector; 1 worker in the petrochemical and rubber sector; and 11 workers whose industry could not be determined based on the data available to us lost their lives.
Looking at work-related homicides by sector, 76 workers died in industry, 42 in construction, 26 in services, and 20 in agriculture.
As far as we could determine, 2 of the deceased workers were union members, while 162 were not.
This month, 9 migrant workers (4 Syrian, 1 Iraqi, 1 Kyrgyz, 1 Egyptian, 1 Russian, 1 Turkmen) lost their lives. Of the migrant workers, 4 were employed in the construction sector, 3 in agriculture, and 2 in industry.
10 of those who died in work-related homicides were female workers. Of the women, 10 worked in the service sector, 2 in agriculture, and 2 in industry.
Employers viewing occupational health and safety measures as costs or failing to implement them sufficiently, the state's failure to conduct necessary inspections, excessive, long, and intensive working hours, and the obstruction of union organizing constitute the fundamental causes of these work-related homicides.