Residential construction site collapses in Kadıköy: One worker dies
ISTANBUL (DİHA) - A worker has been killed after scaffolding collapsed from the 14th floor of a construction site for a new residential tower in Istanbul’s Asian-side district of Kadıköy, in yet another labor accident that may add fuel to the debate on work safety in Turkey.
The accident took place when a large number of steel bars and timber fell to the ground where the workers were gathered before the start of their shift, leaving one of the workers under a large amount of debris. The body of 22-year-old worker, Sezer Karakaş, was found by his colleagues, who rushed to the area after witnessing the scaffolding collapse. The incident came only a few days after it was revealed that prosecutors decided not to press charges against the top board members of a construction company building the towers where 10 workers died in an elevator accident last month, which had put the spotlight on appalling safety conditions endured by many construction workers.
Construction companies have been accused of not fulfilling some of the most basic security measures and putting workers’ lives at risk with the absence of monitoring on their sites.
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