Saturday, June 20, 2026

Construction worker dies after falling from scaffold

TBILISI, June 9 – A construction worker died in Kutaisi on Tuesday after falling from scaffolding during refurbishment work on a residential apartment block, Interpressnews reported. The accident happened on Shartava Street, in Georgia’s second-largest city. According to the news agency, the man fell from scaffolding installed at the third-floor level of a multi-storey residential … Read more

Construction sites remain Georgia’s deadliest workplaces

TBILISI, June 2 – Workplace deaths in Georgia are slowly declining, but experts say safety rules still need to be tightened, especially in the construction sector, where most fatal accidents continue to happen. According to Business Rezonansi, citing data from Geostat, 32 people died in fatal workplace accidents in 2025. Of those, 21 deaths were … Read more

Four dead, one in critical condition, after road project collapse

TBILISI, November 24 – A deadly construction accident on one of Georgia’s largest infrastructure projects has left four workers dead and one in critical condition after a mass of earth collapsed at a work site near the village of Tskere. The incident occurred during the installation of a retaining wall on the Kvesheti-Kobi road, a … Read more