Desperate migrants taking up work in hazardous environments
The Hindu
Death of AP native at Kaloor in Kochi on Wednesday is the latest in a spate of worksite accidents involving migrants
Driven to a state of desperation owing to joblessness in the wake of the pandemic, migrant workers in Ernakulam are increasingly taking up work in highly dangerous environment with fatal consequences.
The death of a 45-year-old worker from Andhra Pradesh after being crushed under a collapsed concrete slab at Kaloor on Wednesday was the latest in a spate of worksite accidents involving migrants in the district since the unlock after the second wave of the pandemic.
While a migrant worker got crushed under a tree, which he was engaged to axe, at Mambra near Angamaly last week, another met with a similar tragic end in July after being crushed between a scaffolding and a collapsed concrete structure while working at the site of an apartment complex under construction at Panampilly Nagar here. Both were from West Bengal.