14 May 2025
Saudi Arabia: Migrant Workers Electrocuted, Decapitated, and Falling to Death at Workplaces
Summary
Date Reported: 14 May 2025
Location: Saudi Arabia
Other
Not Reported ( Construction ) - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Bangladesh , Construction , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Occupational Health & Safety , DeathsResponse
Response sought: No
Source type: NGO
Summary
Date Reported: 14 May 2025
Location: Saudi Arabia
Other
Not Reported ( Construction ) - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Bangladesh , Construction , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Occupational Health & Safety , Deaths , Access to InformationResponse
Response sought: No
Source type: NGO
Summary
Date Reported: 14 May 2025
Location: Saudi Arabia
Other
Not Reported ( Construction ) - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Bangladesh , Construction , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Deaths , Access to Non-Judicial RemedyResponse
Response sought: No
Source type: NGO
Summary
Date Reported: 14 May 2025
Location: Saudi Arabia
Other
Not Reported ( Construction ) - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Bangladesh , Construction , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Deaths , Access to Non-Judicial RemedyResponse
Response sought: No
Source type: NGO
Summary
Date Reported: 14 May 2025
Location: Saudi Arabia
Other
Not Reported ( Construction ) - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Bangladesh , Construction , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Deaths , Access to Non-Judicial RemedyResponse
Response sought: No
Source type: NGO
Summary
Date Reported: 14 May 2025
Location: Saudi Arabia
Other
Not Reported ( Construction ) - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Bangladesh , Construction , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Deaths , Occupational Health & Safety , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Wage TheftResponse
Response sought: No
Source type: NGO
Summary
Date Reported: 14 May 2025
Location: Saudi Arabia
Other
Not Reported ( Sector not reported/applicable ) - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - Bangladesh - Sector unknown , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Deaths , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Ownership of Property & PossessionsResponse
Response sought: No
Source type: NGO
Summary
Date Reported: 14 May 2025
Location: Saudi Arabia
Other
Not Reported ( Construction ) - EmployerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( Number unknown - India , Construction , Men , Unknown migration status )Issues
Deaths , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Access to InformationResponse
Response sought: No
Source type: NGO
…Scores of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia have died in gruesome yet avoidable workplace-related accidents, including falling from buildings, electrocution, and even decapitation…
…Many migrant deaths in Saudi Arabia are erroneously classified as “natural” and are neither investigated nor compensated. The process for compensation for work-related accidents is long and burdensome…
Saudi authorities, FIFA, and other employers should ensure that all migrant worker deaths, regardless of perceived cause, time, and place are properly investigated and families of deceased workers are treated with dignity, and receive fair and timely compensation…
The risks of occupational deaths and injuries are further increasing as the Saudi government ramps up construction work for the 2034 World Cup as well as other “giga-projects.” … Companies also often sought to withhold returning deceased migrant workers’ belongings and the outstanding pay owed to them….
“The gruesome workplace accidents killing migrant workers in Saudi Arabia should be a huge red flag for businesses, football fans, and sports associations seeking to partner with FIFA on the 2034 Men’s World Cup and other Saudi ‘giga-projects’,” said Michael Page, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch…
Researchers collected information about migrant workers’ deaths from Indian, Bangladeshi, and Nepali government sources. Across nationalities the large majority of deaths of workers were attributed to “natural causes,”…