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I'll save you the bother, Bodd.
Taken from a similar source as your article about the electrocuted migrant, which is based on the Guardian article, so it's second generation reporting, adding its own opinions. The media presented below is a media dedicated to sustainability.
According to Qatari authorities, 80 per cent of the Indian migrants who died did so as a result of “natural causes”. It’s suspected that this wording likely covers up many cases of cardiac or respiratory attacks caused by excessive heat or unsafe working conditions.
This troubling figure was revealed by UK newspaper The Guardian following an investigation into data from government sources in five nations from which the workers emigrated
https://www.lifegate.com/qatar-6500-workers-dead-world-cup
All other media outlets report second hand the findings of the guardianThis troubling figure was revealed by UK newspaper The Guardian following an investigation into data from government sources in five nations from which the workers emigrated
https://www.lifegate.com/qatar-6500-workers-dead-world-cup
But the findings are refuted by The Human Rights organisation.
Please don't misinterpret my comments.
I do care about workers conditions throughout the world, and H&S issues.
But misrepresenting data undermines the principle of fair, just and equitable reporting.
If you dig deeper, you'll see that some of the workers may have been inexperienced in working such climates:
The Guardian newspaper reports this week that more than 6,500 migrant laborers have died in the course of that work. We're joined now by Pete Pattison, in Nepal, who's one of the reporters who worked on that investigation. Mr. Pattison, thanks so much for being with us.
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/27/9720...ant-workers-have-died-in-qatars-world-cup-pre
The average temperature in Nepal is 27°https://www.npr.org/2021/02/27/9720...ant-workers-have-died-in-qatars-world-cup-pre
The temperature in Qatar can be as high as 45°
That article goes on to say:
Some of the deaths caused by workplace accidents, some are caused by road traffic accidents, some are suicides, but the vast majority are categorized as so-called natural deaths, which essentially means deaths that are sudden and unexplained.
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or impacts on there lives 
