Company director detained for violation of safety rules, claiming lives of 2 workers
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The director of the Khimini Service 2 construction company has been detained earlier today for the violation of safety rules, which claimed the lives of two workers on Chavchavadze Avenue in Central Tbilisi on March 31, 2019.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs says that vertical digging at the scene went against safety rules, leading to the fatalities.
The workers died after a sinkhole opened up during renovation works on the basement of a hospital.
The body of the first worker, 26-year-old David Abesadze, was found shortly after the incident on the same day.
The body of the other missing worker, 40-year-old Edvard Varishiv, was sought for more than eight hours by rescue workers.
The Human Rights Monitoring and Education Centre of Georgia says that between 2011 and 2018, 376 workers died and 1,081 received injuries at their workplace.
Last year alone 199 individuals received injuries and 59 died at their workplaces.
Six activists who were detained yesterday at a rally demanding the protection of workers’ rights following the death of two workers on Sunday have been released.The incident took place late yesterday when the protestors blocked the street and police were trying to push them to the sidewalks.
A violation of safety standards has been named as a possible reason behind the death of two workers in central Tbilisi late yesterday by the employees of the Georgian Health Ministry Work Inspection Department.
The President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan has offered his deep condolences to President Giorgi Margvelashvili and the Georgian population over the tragic accident at the Mindeli coal mine in western Georgia that has claimed the lives of six and injured three.
The government of Georgia has declared April 6 as a mourning day after an accident in a mine in west Georgia claiming six lives and injuring three.One of the three mine workers injured in today’s accident has told Georgian Economy Minister Dimitri Kumsishvili that he has never witnessed anything of the sort before - he said that the reason behind the accident early this morning was a coal mine bump.
Head of GVK Hospitality construction company Shishu Pal Burdak has been arrested after a 16-year-old died at the company’s construction site last week. The judge did not grant the motion of the defence to have the detainee released on 30,000 GEL ($10,435/€9,301) bail.
'The safety of workers in Georgia’s mines is at serious risk,’ reads the beginning of the first paragraph of the Human Rights Watch research ‘No Year without Deaths’: A Decade of Deregulation Puts Georgian Miners at Risk.’ The 60-page research that has been published today, says that the risk is caused by ‘insufficient government regulation and resulting mining practices that prioritize production quotas and put workers’ safety in jeopardy.’