#worker deaths

[harrison-abbott]

this is actually a good point. (in this case from the Dortmund supporters.)

did you know that over 6500 migrant workers have died in Qatar whilst building infrastructure for the World Cup, since the bid was successful in 2010.

that’s crazy. just for a football tournament. most of the deaths were related to a lack of protection from extreme heat.

[thoughtlessarse]

Extreme heat in Italy takes workers' lives as temperatures pass 40C

Factory workers and labourers call for furlough as five people in Italy are believed to have died because of extreme heat, reports The Guard

Factory workers and labourers call for furlough as five people in Italy are believed to have died because of extreme heat, reports The Guardian, EURACTIV’s media partner. Stefano Olmastroni, a cleaner, had been tidying shelves in a supermarket selling farm produce in Florence shortly before he died on 13 July, when Italy was in the midst of an anticyclone called Cerberus that pushed temperatures beyond 40C. Earlier in the day, the 61-year-old told relatives that he was struggling to work in the heat and was feeling sluggish. He was looking forward to resting on his day off the day after. Olmastroni, who had heart problems, finished his shift at 3pm and was later found slumped in the changing room. “When they found him, the temperature in the changing room was 39C,” said his niece, Sara Ndere Olmastroni. “He died before they could take him to the hospital.” Her uncle had been working in the supermarket’s greenhouse area, where there was no air-conditioning. “The temperature was really high and he was a person who had heart problems – a heart attack could have happened at any time but for sure, the heat didn’t help,” she added. “It was a horrible way to die – at work, and alone.” Olmastroni is one of five people in Italy whose death over the past week is believed to have been provoked by the extreme heat as a more intense anticyclone, Caronte, broke a temperature record in Rome and nudged the mercury to almost 47C in Sicily. The true death toll is likely to be far greater. All, apart from a 44-year-old road worker who died after collapsing while preparing fresh markings on a street in Milan and whose family is still awaiting the results of an autopsy, had heart-related health issues.

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People with heart conditions should not be working in these heatwave temperatures, i.e. 35℃ and above.

I've worked in greenhouses back when we had “normal” summers back in the '80s. It was hellish then. I can't imagine working in one during a heatwave.

[realcleargoodtimes]

Related Video: What COVID-19 Recovery Looks Like, Day by Day A Nike warehouse in Memphis, Tennessee, refused to allow a public health worker into the facility after a temporary worker at the facility died from COVID-19, ProPublica reported Saturday. According to the report, an environmentalist from Shelby County Tennessee was denied entry by a third-party security guard at a Nike warehouse in Memphis on April 16, according to the report. The official was told she was not able to enter the facility without an appointment.

SHAME ON NIKE

Five days prior to her April 16 visit, Nike learned that a temporary worker employed by Adecco at a facility on Shelby Drive had died from COVID-19. The environmentalist's visit to the facility was sparked by a complaint that Nike was not cleaning properly or allowing workers to practice social distancing, according to the report. The environmentalist was told she could not enter the facility without an appointment.

According to ProPublica, the environmentalist received a call the following day from a Nike employee who said the company had installed markers at the facility to enforce social distancing and that the facility was closed each Tuesday for cleaning.  

No one from the Shelby County office visited the warehouse again to verify that the changes had been made, and the environmentalist who had been denied entry on April 16 "felt at that time there was nothing else that needed to be done," Kasia Alexander, environmental health administrator for the department, told ProPublica.

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[proudlyhopelesslyoptimistic]

In Italy, an asbestos industrialist has recently been sentenced to 18 years in prison for causing a public health catastrophe of asbestos deaths. Yet the Harper government promotes the deadly deception that asbestos can be “safely used.”

Kathleen Ruff, "Canada’s continuing asbestos scandal: science denied, workers exposed to harm," The Hill Times, 7 August 2014.

[pncau]

Construction firm charged over workplace death

Construction firm charged over workplace death

A construction company is facing a fine of up to a million dollars over the death of one of its workers two years ago.

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Anarchists are not murderers, and no brainwashing attempted by Greek PM Papandreou, the national or the international media should convince anyone otherwise.

The management of the bank strictly bared the employees from leaving today, even though they had persistently asked so themselves from very early this morning – while they also forced the employees to lock up the doors and repeatedly confirmed that the building remained locked up throughout the day, over the phone. They even blocked off their internet access so as to prevent the employees from communicating with the outside world.

My co-workers lost their lives today by malice: the malice of Marfin Bank and Mr. Vgenopoulos personally who explicitly stated that whoever didin’t come to work today [May 5th, a day of a general strike!] should not bother showing up for work tomorrow [as they would get fired].