
A new report by The Center for Construction Research and Training examines construction worker injury data from 2011 until 2021 and found an annual average of 963 fatal injuries and 78,000 nonfatal injuries, naming construction one of the most dangerous industries.
“Construction is one of the most hazardous industries in the United States,” begins a new report by The Center for Construction Research and Training. Titled “Fatal and Nonfatal Injuries in the Construction Industry,” the report offers “updated information” on those injuries, based on data gathered from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries and employer logs obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. (These latter logs specifically pertain to “private, wage-and-salary construction workers.”) The report notes, crucially, that this latter survey “has been found to underreport nonfatal injuries,” and that it has been specifically found to underreport “nonfatal injuries among Hispanic construction workers.” Continue reading