Construction Accident
The construction industry was responsible for the largest number of fatal work accidents in 2003, accounting for more than one out of every five fatalities. Specialty trade contractors recorded 626 fatalities or about 56 percent of the 1,126 fatal construction accident total.
Work in the construction industry, poses other safety risks to workers, including falls from elevations and being struck by vehicles. Construction work has the highest lost time injury rate of all the major economic sectors in the United States and accounts for billions of dollars of losses to workers and contractors each year.
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The construction industry is divided into three major segments. Construction of buildings contractors, or general contractors, build residential, industrial, commercial, and other buildings. Heavy and civil engineering construction contractors build sewers, roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, and other projects. Specialty trade contractors are engaged in specialized activities such as carpentry, painting, plumbing, and electrical work.
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.
Some of the issues involving construction accidents include the following:
- Crane Accidents
- Scaffolding Accidents
- Gas Exposure
- Falls
- Fallen objects
- Defective Machinery
- Electrical Injury
- Workers Compensation
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