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Monday, June 04, 2007
Construction Safety Statistics
I've been searching for safety statistics for the construction industry this morning and found it surprisingly difficult to find information. Most of the available information seems to be published by attornies looking to attract clients. If you know of a good source of information on accidents in the construction industry, please add it as a comment to this post.
Lawcore.com had some information that shows that of the 5,915 workplace falities in 2000, 2118 of those were construction related... more than any other occupational group. However, it woud be more useful to know the number of fatalities/injuries per thousand manhours worked. The lawcore.com web site states that falls, trenches and electrical accidents are the most common causes of fatalities on construction sites.
Statistics from Ireland on another legal web site confirm this. This McGarr Solicitors' site reports:
"The study showed, in the case of the sample of incidents reviewed, that 20% involved falls; 20% involved ladders or scaffolds; 11% involved contact with power lines; 9% involved collapse of trenches."
Lawcore.com had some information that shows that of the 5,915 workplace falities in 2000, 2118 of those were construction related... more than any other occupational group. However, it woud be more useful to know the number of fatalities/injuries per thousand manhours worked. The lawcore.com web site states that falls, trenches and electrical accidents are the most common causes of fatalities on construction sites.
Statistics from Ireland on another legal web site confirm this. This McGarr Solicitors' site reports:
"The study showed, in the case of the sample of incidents reviewed, that 20% involved falls; 20% involved ladders or scaffolds; 11% involved contact with power lines; 9% involved collapse of trenches."
Labels: Construction / Installation
posted by Steve Hudgik |
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The CDC reports:
Construction is a high hazard occupation. During the period from 1980 through 1995, at least 17,000 construction workers died from injuries suffered on the job. Construction lost more workers to traumatic injury death than any other major industrial sector during this time period. Construction has the third highest rate of death by injury: 15.2 deaths per 100,000 workers. Only mining and agriculture experience higher rates. The leading causes of death among construction workers are falls from elevations, motor vehicle crashes, electrocution, machines, and struck by falling objects.
Fatality Investigation Reports (conducted under the FACE Program)
Since the inception of the FACE program in 1982, hundreds of fatal incidents involving construction workers have been investigated by NIOSH and State investigators. This link provides a list of those cases which in turn links to the full-text reports on the FACEWeb.
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