Workplace deaths up this year compared to last year – Hamilton

Minister Joseph Hamilton poses with the Massy contingent during Sunday’s walk (DPI photo)

Workplace deaths have risen this year compared to the same period last year, according to Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton.

The rise this year followed declines in previous years. The Department of Public Information (DPI) said that in 2020, there were 32 workplace deaths; in 2021, the number deceased to 27 and then in 2022, there were 21. Twenty deaths were recorded last year.

Hamilton, in his message on Occupational Safety and Health Day on Sunday, stated that the majority of fatalities occur in the mining and construction sectors.