Austria -Fatality for subcontracted migrant worker -October 02, 2014

A 59-year-old Hungarian painter decorator has tragically died after falling from a ladder whilst working in Austria. The man was working on a building in Aspang-Markt in Lower Austria when he fell and was seriously injured. His boss, who was paying him in cash, refused to call an ambulance and made a fellow worker drive the injured for more than an hour - a distance of 90 km - to a hospital across the border in Hungary. The authorities are investigating the decorating company.

English: http://www.thelocal.at/20141010/illegal-worker-dies-after-ladder-fall-in-austria  

 

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