Burak Dogan was working a Saturday evening dinner rush when tragedy struck.
Transport Workers’ Union national secretary Michael Kaine said the deaths weighed heavily on their loved ones.“Their whole lives should have been ahead of them, but tragically were ripped away. The shock of these losses remain raw,” he said.
The TWU will file claims to the Personal Injury Commission on behalf of Dogan on Wednesday, while applications for fellow deliverers Akshay Deepak Doultani and Adil Abbas will be put to Uber and iCare first.But the union warned under-reporting may have obscured the true scale of workplace deaths.Credit:A study by Macquarie University found food delivery riders were 13 times more likely to present to a hospital emergency department between 8pm and midnight than regular cyclists.
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