Four More Deaths and 12 Injured at Shipyards
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Like something out of a Charles Dickens novel, deaths are almost a weekly occurrence at Turkey’s shipyards. In the most recent incident, workers were testing the lifeboat of a newly built ship and got into the lifeboat to test it instead of using sandbags. The hawser connecting the boat to the ship broke off and the lifeboat fell, along with the workers in it, killing four and injuring others. 12 other workers were injured on Monday when a lifeboat broke loose from a ship under repair and plunged into the sea. Last week there were more deaths at a different shipyard. More than two dozen workers have died this year at the Tuzla shipyards alone.
This accident took place only one week after a parliamentary commission investigating industrial accidents at the Tuzla shipyards presented a report on the incidents and working conditions to Parliament. The 175-page report indicated that most shipyards disregard safety regulations and force their employees to work in unsafe conditions.
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