OSHA Speeches Concerns for roadway safety. One of the concerns we share is roadway safety and what we can do about it.
Traffic fatalities are the number one occupational killer.
And in 1997, job-related highway fatalities hit a new high point. About 2,600 workers lost their lives due to all transportation crashes, and more than half of those died on the highway. These are grim statistics. But the details give us some clues where to start. Ninety percent of the workers killed in highway crashes were at the wheel when the accident occurred.