A total of 87 magisterial inquiries into workplace deaths and injuries that have occurred over the last seven years are still open. A leaked list dating to 2015, seen by Times of Malta, shows that magistrates are still investigating 29 workplace fatalities, the earliest of them going back to May 2018. The list includes details on the date, locations and names of the victims. Some of the injured have been waiting for years for the magistrates to conclude their inquiry. The earliest workplace accident on the list is dated August 2015 and the latest September 2022. Two of the first injuries on the list are from a Sliema boat accident dating back to May 2016. It was reported that two men, at the time a 26-year-old and a 45-year-old Moroccan, were fixing a boat engine anchored off Tigne when the incident took place. The case is still awaiting a conclusion. The bulk of the 29 workplace deaths on the list occurred on construction sites. Many were foreigners who fell to their deaths. One of the earliest on the list was 26-year-old Mabruk Abubaker Abdullatif, who fell a height of several storeys at a construction site in Sliema. The accident happened back in November 2018 and, yet, the...
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