The National Safety Council has indicated for several years that, excluding motor vehicle related accidents, the major cause of accidental deaths and serious injuries in the workplace, in residential environments, and in public settings in the United States is fall type accidents. Commercial establishments . The general literature well recognizes that falls of persons in commercial establishments occur more frequently and have more serious results, on the whole, than any other type of accident. Workplace falls . It has been documented for decades that falls are a major source of injury in the workplace.
Falls are one of the chief sources of occupational injury.