#Fatal work accident

A €16,500 penalty was handed down by the Limassol district court over sweeping safety failures that led to a construction worker’s death when an excavation collapsed, with additional fines imposed ...

A 47-year-old man died after falling 23 metres from an under-construction building in Limassol on Tuesday, police said. The man, named as Georgian national Gela Katsidis, was working on the building’...

A 64-year-old man died following an industrial accident in Limassol on Monday morning. The victim, identified as Evanthis Nikolaou from Limassol, was at a factory in the Moni industrial area ...

Haulage company Eurofreight Logistics Ltd was handed a €17,000 fine on Monday for a “series of violations” which led to one of the company’s employees sustaining fatal injuries. The fine ...

Police on Saturday refuted claims of abuse against Bangladeshi nationals, after growing criticism on the way it carried out the raid in Limassol, that led to the death of Anisur ...

Members of the public launched a petition calling for an end to racial discrimination against Cyprus’ migrant community, it emerged on Thursday. “No one should live in fear because they ...

The Honourary Consulate of Bangladesh in Cyprus on Wednesday described the death of 23-year-old Bangladeshi national “tragic” after he fell to his death from his apartment balcony. Police knocked on ...

Police seek out landlord, dangerous apartment crammed with 11 people rented for €2,000 A 23-year-old man fell to his death on Wednesday, after he jumped out of a fifth-floor apartment to get ...

Larnaca District Court issued a €6,000 fine on Tuesday after the fatal injury of a man at work. According to the labour inspection department, Cablenet Communications Systems Ltd was fined after ...

A 57-year-old man, formerly of Paphos, fell to his death in a work accident that occurred Monday afternoon in Nicosia. The late electrician fell from a moving ladder, shortly after ...

A 64-year-old construction worker fell to his death on Monday at the place he was working in Nicosia. Soteris Antoniou was working on a house renovation when he fell from ...

Pafilia, a major developer, was on Tuesday fined €13,000 by the labour inspection office after a fatal work-place injury was blamed on a lack of measures being in place. Details of ...

Cyprus ranked the fourth worst in the EU27 in 2018 in relation to the incidence of fatal accidents at work, according to data released by Eurostat. According to a standardised incidence ...