Consequences of Unsafe Workshops; Death and Injury of Two Miners in Zirakouh Due to Gas Poisoning

Due to unsafe conditions and lack of necessary inspections at the Zirakouh stone mine, one worker died from 'gas poisoning' and another was injured. According to the 'ILNA' news agency, the gas poisoning in the resting place of the workers at the 'Shajar Stone Mine' in Zirakouh led to the death and injury of these two workers aged 28 and 22. A labor source in South Khorasan province stated yesterday that the gas poisoning incident involved 'toxic carbon monoxide' in the 'workers' resting area' of the Shajar stone mine in Zirakouh. In May of this year, Masoud Ghadi Pasha, the deputy of medical and laboratory affairs at the Islamic Republic's forensic organization, claimed that the death toll from workplace accidents in the year 1401 was '1,900 workers.' The statistics announced by government agencies are noteworthy, especially since Ehsan Sohrabi, a labor activist, previously stated that only a 'small number' of workplace accidents are 'reported in the media' and many incidents 'do not even appear in official statistics.' The labor source also informed ILNA that this incident occurred when the two workers 'used coal for heating in the workplace.' In the Shajar agate mine near the village of 'Bamroud' in Zirakouh and northeastern South Khorasan province, at least '300 local workers' are employed. The lack of up-to-date and necessary training, absence of thorough and periodic government oversight, along with the prohibition of independent labor unions and syndicates, has intensified the occurrence of fatal accidents in Iranian workplaces. Life for bread; 65% of workers earn less than the minimum wage, 76% of the injured were uninsured. Unsafe workshops are a death trap for workers; the death and injury of '11 workers' in five days. Continuing fatal workplace incidents in Iran; the death of a welder and a poultry farmer. Injury of 7 workers in an explosion at a 'melting pot' in a metal industries factory in Saveh. Coal miners in Tarzeh, Damghan, gathered on the third day of their strike in Shahrud. A fire in a cosmetics factory left over 50 injured.