Stop Fatal Falls in Construction

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE)
• Description:
  Because of the 264 or more deaths each year from falls in construction in the U.S., OSHA began an initiative to reduce fall related deaths (www.osha.gov/stopfalls/). In Michigan, since 2001, 119 of the 328 (36%) deaths among construction workers were from falls. Sixty eight of the 119 (57%) of the fatal falls were the types of falls highlighted in the OSHA Fall Prevention Initiative: 33 falls from a roof edge or through a roof opening, 24 falls from a ladder, and 11 falls from a scaffold. The most common heights of all construction falls were 10-19 feet (28 deaths), 21 deaths were from less than 10 feet. Specialty trade contractors were most likely to have a fatal fall; roofing (31), structural steel (11), framing and painting (16) and masonry (7). Individuals who died from a fall from a height of greater than 6 feet were either not equipped with or were not properly using fall protection equipment (i.e., a harness was worn but the lanyard was not attached to an anchor point). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Disaster Planning Emergencies Emergency Responders Mining Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Construction Workers Falls Fatalities Injury Prevention Mortality Data Occupational Accidents
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Publisher:
  Michigan State University
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  Michigan ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20054520
• Citation:
  East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, HA#16, 2013 May; :1
• Email:
  debra.chester@ht.msu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• Performing Organization:
  Michigan State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Stop fatal falls in construction
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a7ab478972dcd0108fb0d68ef690f603c760312203115eb5c9037fb3f3e7ba817457eb1a477444f6e0f038919a6d4279b9d90730dba6db28113d44fd7525653b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/228913/cdc_228913_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 843.96 KB ]