- Spending reports for Worker’s Compensation construction accident show that 15% of all annual workers’ compensation costs are spent on construction workers who have been injured on-site.
- Findings by the Bureau of Labor Statistics illustrated that new construction workers are commonly at the most risk of being injured on the job. According to the Bureau’s data, 60% of all injuries in the construction industry happen within an employee’s first year on the job.
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics also reported that the rough approximation of construction site accidents per year is around 150,000.
- Not only are new industrial and commercial workers typically the most likely of all to be injured at work, but the construction industry itself has been shown to pose an elevated risk of injury and death. Statistics reported by EHS today show that nearly 20% of all reported deaths at work in the decade between 2002 and 2012 happened at construction sites.
- The evidence for the pronounced danger of a career in construction are supported further by the findings of the US National Library of Medicine. For employees who are under the age of 18, the construction industry holds the second-highest number of fatal accidents out of all other American industries.
- The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health reported that 2005 was one of the worst years for construction worker death frequency, with 1224 workers dying on-site in just one calendar year.
- Intelex reported a significant relationship between the available data on annual motor vehicle crashes and active construction workers. According to their data, just about 33% of motor vehicle crashes in all developed countries involve a construction employee.
- There are more potentially fatal dangers on a construction site than falling or being struck by a heavy falling objects. According to data collected by the Center for construction research and training, 15.7% of all construction injuries are due to some form of exposure.
- An AOL report on the highest job fatality rates in the nation showed the fatality rate of structural and iron steel workers to be 46.4%.
- The occupational safe and health administration reported that 10% of all construction workers, one out of 10 employees, are injured on an annual basis.
- The things that claim construction workers’ lives so frequently are not limited only to what is immediately apparent on the construction sites that they work on. A report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that construction workers were highly represented in the statistical findings for lead poisoning death in America, constituting 15% of the total victims.
- While fatal accidents in the construction industry are a reality, there have been signs of improvement. According to statistics collected by the Federal Highway administration, the accidents caused by road construction incidents has actually fallen by 36% in the past nine years.
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