While there are many injuries and health risks associated with all occupations, the highest risk of injury and illness occurs to construction workers. The occupational environment associated with construction exacerbates this hazard.
Construction workers erect, renovate and demolish buildings.
There is an extensive range of job descriptions, everything from automated activities to physical labor. Work is performed in extreme temperatures, under enforced timelines and in unfamiliar work environments. Fifty percent of new construction workers will have some kind of traumatic injury within their first 30 days of hire. The annual work related other occupational groups rarely surpass death rate for construction workers. On average, three construction workers die in the United States every day as a result of traumatic injury at the job site.