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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

worker safety

Illustrative: View of a construction site in the city of Gedera, February 3, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
July 6, 2023, 3:18 pm
Construction worker killed in fall in southern Israel
Paramedics declare man dead at construction site in Netivot after he falls some 5 meters and sustains severe head injury
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Construction in Rishon Lezion on August 8, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
November 18, 2022, 2:32 pm
Construction worker dies after being hit by ceramic tiles in Rishon Lezion
Victim pronounced dead on the scene after being found underneath heavy slabs in a factory
By ToI Staff
A broken panel through which a worker apparently fell onto the Ayalon Highway, April 11, 2022 (Gedalyah Reback)
April 11, 2022, 11:35 am
Worker dies after falling onto highway from Tel Aviv pedestrian bridge
Man plunges from walkway between Azrieli mall and Hashalom train station, is pronounced dead in hospital
By ToI Staff
Martin Abramowitz, center, and his sons Jacob, left, and Yosef pose at the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, at 29 Washington Place in Greenwich Village. The original building is gone but the site is marked with a plaque. (Courtesy Martin Abramowitz/ via JTA)
March 25, 2022, 4:40 pm
Union activist struggles with his father’s possible role in Triangle Shirtwaist fire
In a book whose release is timed to coincide with the March 25 anniversary of the NYC blaze that killed 146 garment workers, Martin Abramowitz describes searching for painful truth
By Susie Davidson
Ghazi Abu Sbeitan and Ahmad Ziyad al-Sayyad (Courtesy)
February 9, 2022, 12:40 pm
2 construction workers fall to their deaths from 40th floor of Tel Aviv building
East Jerusalem residents fall from mechanical platform in Bavli neighborhood; watchdog demands government take action on worker safety
By ToI Staff
Car footage shows a metal cylinder detach from a construction crane, moments before crashing into the car of 24-year-old student Jonathan Deri on March 14, 2021. (Screen capture: Channel 12 News)
March 15, 2021, 4:11 pm
Man survives as 15-ton metal pole falls from crane onto his car
Student Jonathan Deri, 24, hails ‘miracle’ after sustaining only minor injuries in crash on Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A construction worker on a rooftop at a construction site in downtown Jerusalem on August 5, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
November 4, 2019, 12:54 pm
Construction worker falls to his death in Beit Shemesh
Eyewitnesses say man fell from several stories up; death is 40th construction-related fatality in 2019
By ToI Staff
The site of a crane collapse in Tel Aviv on October 29, 2019. (video screenshot)
October 29, 2019, 6:51 pm
Worker killed, 2 others hurt in building accidents; crane collapses in Tel Aviv
Death is 39th construction-related fatality in 2019; no injuries as crane falls, though man says he narrowly escaped being hit
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
October 1, 2019, 9:36 pm
Construction worker killed at Ashkelon building site, in 35th case this year
Police say accident that killed 22-year-old Ali Darawsha under investigation, but advocacy group casts doubt on commitment to stem plague of fatal work accidents
By ToI Staff
A construction site in Hod Hasharon where a construction worker was killed on August 4, 2019. (Israel Police)
August 4, 2019, 5:16 pm
Construction worker, 40, killed in Hod Hasharon
Incident brings to 51 total number of worksite accident deaths in 2019 — 29 of them in construction sites
By ToI Staff
Magen David Adom ambulances at Ben Gurion airport as an El Al plane made an emergency landing, April 21, 2015. (MDA spokesperson/MDA operations)
June 23, 2019, 12:56 pm
1 dead, 1 seriously injured in warehouse accident at Ben Gurion Airport
Two men crushed by piece of heavy machinery; police and Labor Ministry representatives on scene to collect eyewitness accounts
By ToI Staff
The scene where a crane collapsed at a construction site in Yavneh, killing four people and injuring two, May 19, 2019. (Flash90)
June 13, 2019, 1:53 pm
Only 1 in 4 serious worksite accidents gets a criminal probe
Figures obtained by Kav LaOved advocacy group show rate of investigations dropping as number of deadly on-the-job accidents soars
By ToI Staff
Fuldi Schwartz (right), 66 (screen capture: Channel 12)
May 15, 2019, 9:42 am
Worker injured in Eurovision venue accident dies
Fuldi Schwartz, 66, was unloading equipment at Expo Tel Aviv when a wheeled lighting rig toppled over onto him
By ToI Staff
Workers prepare the stage ahead of the opening of the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, on April 15, 2019. (Flash90)
May 13, 2019, 1:23 pm
Worker seriously injured when lighting rig falls on him at Eurovision venue
66-year-old man undergoes urgent neurological surgery after incident at Expo Tel Aviv fairgrounds, day before the first semifinal of the song contest
By ToI Staff
View of the train and tracks during a test drive of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv high-speed train in central Israel on January 16, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 2, 2018, 11:42 am
Ex-workers slam Tel Aviv-Jerusalem fast train as ‘experiment with human lives’
Citing numerous safety failures, senior employees warn that thousands of Israelis are in danger due to government inaction
By Michael Bachner
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