Safety Corner
January/February 2003 IBEW
Journal
Construction Deaths Reach Record High in 2001
Workplace deaths in construction reached a record level in 2001,
jumping 6 percent to a total of 1,225 deaths. Construction continued
to have more fatalities than any other industry, which has been
the case since the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) first conducted
the fatality census in 1992.
Falls increased by 13 percent from the year 2000 levels and accounted
for more than half of all construction fatalities. Fatalities from
those falls, 808 in all, were up 10 percent over the previous year.
Worker deaths resulting from electrocutions, and from fires and
explosions had been down to a 10-year low in the year 2000, but
in 2001 they were back up to the levels experienced in the late
1990s.
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