While construction workers account for about 4% of the workforce in the U.S., nearly 21% of all workplace deaths were in the construction industry per the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reports that out of 4,674 worker fatalities in private industry in 2017, 20.7% (971) were in the construction industry. The top four injuries in the construction industry have been ominously dubbed the, “fatal four,” because eliminating these four types of construction accidents would save 582 American workers’ lives each year: Falls, Struck by an object, Electrocution and Caught-in/between...more