BLS: Private construction industry fatalities up 5% in 2019
Safety
On: December 31, 2020 | By:
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its annual National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries report for 2019 on Dec. 15 and reported that the private construction industry had 1,061 fatal injuries for the year, up 5% from 2018 and the sector's highest number of worker deaths since 2007. The 2019 rate of injuries per 100,000 workers in the private construction industry was 9.7, up 2.1% from 9.5 in 2018. On-the-job fatalities for all industries totaled 5,333, representing a fatal injury rate of 3.5 per 100,000 workers.
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