A female worker died July 7, 2016, after falling down off a ladder. The 50-year-old woman was working in a five-story residential building when she fell down.
Iranian workers are deprived of minimum safety measures and work in hazardous and dangerous working conditions. Women are more vulnerable since they are obliged to work in unofficial workplaces with conditions below the standard.
(State-run ILNA news agency – July 9, 2016)