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• Personal Author:
  Harris, William ; Brooks, Raina D. ; Trueblood, Amber Brooke ; Yohannes, Thomas ; Bunting, Jessica

  Harris, William ; Brooks, Raina D. ; Trueblood, Amber Brooke ; Yohannes, Thomas ; Bunting, Jessica Less -
• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training. ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training. ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Less -
• Description:
  "Among the wide range of hazards construction workers face, the most dangerous are falls. Almost half of all work-related fatal falls, slips, and trips in 2021 occurred among construction workers (46.2%). Since 2013, workers in the industry have suffered over 300 fatal and 20,000 nonfatal fall-related injuries annually. Falls to a lower level, a Focus Four Hazard, accounted for almost all fatal (95.1%) and half of nonfatal (50.2%) falls, slips, and trips in 2020. This Data Bulletin examines fatal and nonfatal falls in construction by major and detailed subsector and primary source. It also looks at fatal falls from 2011 to 2022 by fall height, time of day, state, whether the decedent was a contracted worker, and establishment size. Falls were defined in various ways based on data availability, including a) falls to a lower level, b) all falls (which includes falls to a lower level and falls on the same level) and c) falls, slips, and trips (which includes falls to a lower level, falls to the same level, and slips and trips without a fall). Fatal injury estimates were generally obtained from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) public tool. Exceptions are contracted worker, establishment size, and time of day (Charts 7 to 9), which were produced with restricted access to BLS CFOI data. Estimates for nonfatal injuries resulting in days away from work (DAFW) among private, wage-and-salary workers were from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) public tool, based on employer logs. Because SOII data changed from annual to biennial estimates in 2021, nonfatal data are shown for two-year periods. Full time equivalent workers (FTEs) were obtained using the BLS Current Population Survey (CPS), a monthly population survey, downloaded through IPUMS. Fatal injury rates were calculated per 100,000 FTEs, while nonfatal rates were calculated per 10,000 FTEs." - NIOSHTIC-2
  
  NIOSHTIC no. 20069356
  
  CPWR is the research and training arm of NABTU. Production of this document was supported by cooperative agreement OH 009762 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIOSH.
  
  DataBulletin-March2024.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
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  Accidental Falls Accidental Falls/mortality Accidents, Occupational Accidents, Occupational/mortality Cause Of Death Construction Industry Population Surveillance Workplace Wounds And Injuries
• Funding:
  cooperative agreement OH 009762
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  7 numbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  20069356
• Resource Number:
  Cooperative-Agreement-Number-U60-OH-009762
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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