Construction Accidents

Many people do not realize how many fatalities and injuries occur every day in the construction industry. In fact, the construction industry has been suffering a silent epidemic of injuries and deaths, particularly among minority groups who tend to be offered the more dangerous jobs. Various studies have documented the growth of danger in this […]

Rescue crews have recovered the bodies of two workers at a construction site who were killed when a lift basket fell 80 feet from a crane, according to a recent report. The accident took place at the site of a bridge being constructed in Winters, California. Rescuers moved the bodies to a staging area near […]

Three highway workers were injured when a semi truck caused a piece of wood to strike them, according to a recent report. California Highway Patrol officers say that the driver of the truck may not have known that the vehicle hurled a sign into a group working on a Fix 50 project and may have […]

Construction sites can be very dangerous places. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, there were almost 4,200 fatalities in the workplace in 2011, and 18 percent of these were construction accidents. Only car accidents take more workers’ lives. Certain types of injuries are more common than others on construction sites, according to OSHA. […]