Occupational murders in Turkey do not decelerate: Two workers aged 15 and 23 lost their lives receiving electric shock in Şanlıurfa, the southeastern province of Turkey, while a 35-year-old worker working at the scrap yard in Konya, the central Anatolian province of Turkey, lost his life by being trapped under a tracked heavy construction machine.
The occupational murder in Viranşehir district of Şanlıurfa; a southeastern province of Turkey, took place on 15th February 2017. Recep Aslan (23 years old) and Ahmet Albayrak (15 years old), working at a construction building, got on the facade elevator which is for material handling. Due to the contact of the iron elevator with the electric wire crossing the street, two workers received electric shock. The workers, who were carried down by other construction workers, were taken to the Viranşehir State Hospital by paramedics. Aslan and Albayrak who were intervened in the emergency service by the doctors, could not be saved despite all efforts, and lost their lives.
In another occupational murder, a 35-year-old worker working at the scrap yard in Konya, the central Anatolian province of Turkey, lost his life by being trapped under a heavy construction machinery.
The occupational murder in Konya took place on 15th February 2017 in Fevzi Çakmak District at a workplace gathering scraps. 30-year-old heavy construction machinery operator, identified only by the initials Ş.U., could not warn his colleague Ayhan Yıldırım who came towards the machine while transferring scraps with a heavy construction machine. Yıldırım, being trapped under the moving heavy construction machine, lost his life.
