Did you know that more than 5,000 construction workers die on the job each year? That’s more than 100 construction worker fatalities per week, and more than 14 per day.
The stats don’t lie. It’s dangerous to work in construction—21 percent of private industry worker fatalities in 2018 occurred in construction. That’s one in five worker deaths last year that were in construction.
Many common accidents in the construction industry are also commonly fatal. Electrocution falls, strikes by objects, and caught-in/betweens: these four types of accidents are “the Fatal Four.” Sixty percent of construction worker deaths involve the Fatal Four. Eliminating the Fatal Four could save up to 591 lives across the U.S. each year.
As a construction worker you face serious risks. In fact, one in ten construction workers is injured every year. How does that play out in injury numbers? It accounts for roughly 15,000 construction accident injuries every year.