Twenty-three fatal workplace accidents in 2015

Government officials and miners at the scene of last May’s multiple fatality mining accident at Mahdia

In what was considered to be, perhaps, the worst year for on-the-job fatalities in living memory, 2015 saw the loss of 23 lives in workplace accidents, most if not all of which were widely believed to have been avoidable.

And in a year when intensified gold-mining activities were believed to have witnessed a reduced focus on mine site safety,