construction died in Tel Aviv - the 10th since the begining of the year

Another, 10th in number, was added to the list of construction fatalities this morning since the beginning of the year. Around 10:30 am, a report was received by MDA about a worker who was injured during work on a platform on a construction site on Chelenov Street in Tel Aviv. MDA paramedics and paramedics who arrived at the scene found the 35-year-old worker with a head injury, gave him medical treatment But in the end they had to determine his death. In another accident that occurred today, a 24-year-old worker who fell from a height at a construction site in Atlit was taken to Rambam Hospital with a moderate condition, with limb injury.
Attorney Yisrael Asel, Attorney General of the Forum for the Prevention of Work Accidents, said: "Today, a construction worker was killed while using the platform. 20 workers were killed since the beginning of the year, 10 of them construction workers. Every year, a number of construction workers are killed in accidents involving the platform, due to unsafe use of these stages. The safety issue of the elevators and the definition of licensed stages of use is not regulated by law, and the regulations are clearly in this area.
"It is the responsibility of the Ministry of Labor to act immediately to issue a safety guideline file for the use of the lifting stages, and to impose the duty to follow the instructions on lifting stage companies. These companies rent the lifting stages for each claimant, for a fee, without ascertaining whether the stage operator has the training and knowledge to operate it. safely".