Once again, construction workers have had serious accidents in the Port of Hamburg. On Friday morning, the murder by work took place on a company premises of the German parcel and letter express service DHL.
Two Worker are after Media during roof work on the street "An der Hohe Schaar" fallen through a light shaft. A 61-year-old r Mann is Fell 15 meters to the hall floor and was fatally injured. He succumbed to a m Location of the event his serious injuries.
The other worker, aged 37, fell eight meters and landed on a shelf. He was seriously injured. He was given medical care by the emergency services and an emergency doctor and then taken to a hospital.
As recently as October 30 last year, were five Workers died on a construction site in HafenCity when a work platform crashed. According to the fire brigade, the scaffolding had collapsed at the eighth floor of an elevator shaft and crashed into the basement. We reported.
Such murders of workers are unfortunately ubiquitous up and down the country. At Phantasialand in Brühl near Cologne, one of the largest amusement parks in Europe, an employee of the technical department was hit by a roller coaster during maintenance work on Monday and seriously injured in the head. The worker died a short time later at the scene of the accident. The murdered man was 43 years old.
A worker was killed last Tuesday morning during construction work in Burghausen (Altötting district) in Upper Bavaria. The man was engaged in dredging work at around 7:15 a.m. on a factory site in Burgkirchener Straße. In the process, an excavator bit came loose from a 30-ton excavator, which hit the 57-year-old worker.
Also last week, a technical worker from Upper Bavaria was killed in a train accident at a construction site of the Brenner Base Tunnel. The 57-year-old was engaged in surveying work in a construction phase in the Innsbruck area. At the same time, a transport train drove into the main tunnel and hit the man. An alerted emergency doctor could only determine death.
Loud Civil Statistics the number of deaths from work has remained constant over the past decade. Despite the sometimes very sensational cases, there is no improvement at all working conditions . More than 400 workers die every year because they have to sell their workforce under adverse circumstances. On average, more than one worker in Germany dies per day through a so -called work “accident”. Such accidents always have the same cause: stress and hustle and bustle caused by the job buyers and a lack of occupational safety measures. Accordingly, such accidents cannot be characterized in any other way than murder.
More than one third of all workers murdered by labor are foreigners. It is particularly interesting that government agencies, such as the Federal Agency for Occupational Safety and Health, publish significantly lower figures, although in the small print noted that the employers' liability insurance associations document around three times as many cases as the state.