These are areas that we believe clearly need some work. First, fatalities in construction. Fatality rates have plateaued, and we have made no additional progress in the last five years. Construction injury rates have declined by nearly 30 percent since 1993 and for the past five years have been lower than the rates for manufacturing. But the construction fatality rate has shown no reduction at all.
More construction workers die on the job than workers in any other field.
Only 6 percent of Americans work in construction, but nearly 20 percent of American workers who lost their lives in the workplace last year died on construction sites. That's about 1200 workers. We know what's killing construction workers that's not the issue. It's falls from elevations, electrical shock, being struck by machines or materials and being crushed, such as in a trench collapse. The facts are clear.