More Contractors Die at Work Than Other Professions

Thirty-one percent of construction workers who died on the job in 2013 died from injuries from falls; 18% died from struck by accidents

The Center for Public Integrity

In 2013, 4,405 workers died from injuries sustained on the job. That's 223 fewer than the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in 2012. However, even as the total number of deaths has gone done, the number of contractors and Hispanic workers who died on the job increased in 2013.

According to the data, most contractors died from injuries from falls (31 percent), struck by an object or equipment (18 percent) as pedestrians hit by vehicles (11 percent) or through exposure to electricty (7 percent). Half of the contractors were working inconstruction and in oil and gas extraction when injured. Most of the injured were laborers, supervisors, roofers, carpenters or electrcians.

According to the data, overall the majority of workers killed on the job in 2013 died in transportation accidents, contact with objects and equipment, death from falls, slips or trips, and exposure to harmful substances or environments.

(more on the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobsite death report...)

 

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