Construction Growth Fuels Increase in Worker Fatalities

National construction fatality figures increase 8% from 2011 to 2012, while booming North Dakota suffers nearly 10 times the national average

After declining for years, the number of fatalities in the U.S. construction industry increased in 2012, with a fatality rate of 9.9 per 100,000 workers compared with 9.1 in 2011, according to a May report by the AFL-CIO.

North Dakota saw an increase in construction industry fatalities, with a fatality rate of 97.4 per 100,000 workers, nearly 10 times the national rate, according to the report.

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