Focusing prevention on these populations and characteristics through better methods of worker and supervisor electrical safety training, use of adequate protective clothing, and compliance with established procedures could minimize the average annual loss of 168 U.S. construction workers....
In the U.S.A., the construction industry leads all other industries in terms of total worker death rate (American Bureau of Labor Statistics 2020). In Hong Kong, over 80% of total industrial fatalities occur in the construction industry (Labor Department 2021), and around 4000 construction ...
One of the riskiest industries for workers is the construction industry, which has the highest fatal accidents death rate when compared to other industries. With the potential for falls, being struck by things, electrocution, and getting trapped between objects, safety is a major issue for those ...
Falls are the leading cause of death in construction, and workers are more likely to die from falls today than they were ten years ago. In 2022,more than one construction worker per day – 397 workers – died as a result of a fall to lower level. Between 2011 and 2022, therate of f...
Heavy construction had a death rate twice that of the other two construction subgroups (building and special trades construction). There was a significant trend towards increasing mortality with decreasing company size (p=0.03). Drilling machine operators, welders, flamecutters, reinforcing-iron workers...
A peculiar work-related death at the construction site: The Half-twisted Man Introduction. Nowadays, the work related fatal accident rate is slowly decreasing (1) but it still represents an important social concern (2). According to... A Costantino,A Baronti,AC Manetti,... 被引量: 0发表...
During these last two years, however, the rates in the foreign-born and native Hispanic worker populations appear somewhat unstable, so it is difficult to draw conclusions about the direction of these rates. While the death rate for white, non-Hispanic constructio...
According to The United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OHSA) construction workers have a right to a safe workplace. However, one of every five workplace fatalities is a construction worker and construction injury still runs higher than the national average (4.0 rate in 2004)...
LOS ANGELES (CNN)-- A construction worker plummeted 53 stories to his death in downtown Los Angeles, landing on a moving car on the street, authorities said. The worker was on his second day on the job Thursday at the unfinished Wilshire Grand Center, where the incident o...
With construction season upon Minnesota, a Minnesota construction worker has taken to Reddit with some personal perspective and stern words for inattentive or distracted drivers. Reddit userSRTmopartook to popular online news aggregate and discussion platformRedditTuesday morning with a well-mannered rant...