A 36-year-old construction worker died Wednesday after falling 6 meters (20 feet) at a construction site in Haifa.
First responding paramedics found the worker lying unconscious with a head injury. After resuscitation efforts failed, they pronounced him dead at the scene.
The worker fell off the roof of a building in Haifa’s industrial zone.
Deaths of construction workers in Israel are a frequent occurrence, largely because of poorly enforced safety codes.
Last month, two men fell to their deaths from the 40th floor of an apartment building under construction in Tel Aviv.
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It was the third time in recent years that construction workers had been killed when mechanical scaffolding platforms collapsed.
Haifa’s industrial area. (Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)
Last week, the cabinet approved a plan to gradually shut down Haifa’s industrial zone, which health officials have warned poses a health hazard. The area includes several major factories, including the country’s largest oil refinery.
The government will adopt the recommendations of a top-level committee of officials that last year recommended that all petrochemical activity in the industrial zone be halted within a decade, at most. Instead, the state will invest NIS billion in new housing projects, eco-friendly jobs, and upgraded public transportation.
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