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site accidents come from many different sectors of the industry, and
often result in severe personal injury such as spinal cord injury,
traumatic brain injury, quadriplegia, paraplegia, fractured necks,
back, bones and death. Due to the severe nature of such injuries,
construction site accidents are often the subject of personal injury
lawsuits and litigation. Some of the most common types of accidents
involve scaffolding, cranes, moving machine parts, hazardous chemicals,
and unsafe working conditions in general.
Construction workers are faced with a wider variety of dangers
and face a heightened risk of work-related injury or fatality than
employees in any other U.S. industry; according to the most recent
annual Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the most recent "lost-workday"
case rate for the construction industry was 5.7 per l00 full-time
workers, the highest of the major economic sectors. The Bureau of
Labor Statistic reports that for the past ten years, 9605 people
have died in construction-related accidents. In 1992, the number
of deaths was 919 - however, through June of 2002, over 1150 construction
accident related deaths have occurred. Almost half of these deaths
are attributed to males between the ages of 20-24. In 1992, more
than half of the construction accident deaths (544) occurred within
this age segment.
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