By Darren Boyle for MailOnline

Published: 10:55 EDT, 17 February 2022 | Updated: 12:42 EDT, 17 February 2022

This is the moment a teenage worker plunged through an open trapdoor because he was too engrossed in his mobile phone. 

Abdullah Mut, 19, was scrolling through messages when he failed to spot the open hatch at a shopping mall in Istanbul and fell into a cellar. 

Fortunately for Mut, he landed on a large pile of boxes which broke his fall and allowed him to escape without injury.   

Abdullah Mut, 19, was scrolling through messages on his phone when he failed to spot the open hatch and fell into a cellar in a shop in Istanbul

Mut, who was engrossed in his phone, walked into the empty void and fell into the cellar

Abdullah Mut, 19, pictured, avoided injury after landing on a large pile of boxes which broke his fall

The incident happened in the central district of Fatih on February 14 as a delivery driver was dropping off produce at the shop. 

The hatch was open while a shopworker dropped stock into the cellar.

One man walked around the open trapdoor before Mut strolled over, his eyes glued to the screen in his hand.  

Afterwards, he said: 'I don't know how it happened. I had my phone in my hand and I was busy with work at that moment.

'I didn't see it and I fell down. By chance, I landed on a stack of boxes. They were unloading goods that day. Then I went back to my office.'

A witness said what when the delivery drivers came to his assistance, Mut's first response was to ask: 'Why is this open? Where are my glasses?' 

One shop owner in the arcade said: 'He suddenly fell and ended up sitting on the boxes. If he had fallen the whole way, he would have at least broken his arms and legs.'

Mut had no warning as he fell through the gap on the floor landing on a pile of boxes which cushioned the impact 

Because he was concentrating on his phone screen, Mut failed to spot this hatch was open

Mut looked confused after a worker told him that he had fallen from above into the cellar

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