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Title: Fatal and nonfatal Focus Four injuries in construction
Citation Type: Miscellaneous
Publication Year: 2023
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Abstract: Construction is one of the most dangerous industries in the United States, with 1,034 fatal occupational injuries among all construction workers and 74,520 nonfatal injuries among private wage-and-salary construction workers in 2020. A majority of fatal occupational injuries and a large proportion of nonfatal injuries result from Construction Focus Four hazards, which include falls to a lower level, struck-by, electrocutions, and caught-in/between injuries. This classification was created in 1994 in response to the impact the top four safety hazards have on construction workers. This Data Bulletin provides information on fatal and nonfatal Focus Four occupational injuries in construction, including by injury type and detailed event/exposure. (In this Data Bulletin, occupational injuries will be referenced as injuries.) Data for fatal injuries from 2011 to 2021 were obtained from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), a complete count of fatal injuries and their circumstances. Data for caught/compressed by equipment/objects, which is one of the categories of caught-in/between injuries, were unavailable in 2021 due to the BLS modernized disclosure policy, which impacts all data from 2019 forward, but missing data varies by year and categories examined. For this Data Bulletin only caught in/compressed by equipment/objects in 2021 was impacted. Estimates of nonfatal injuries for private, wage-and-salary construction workers from 2011 to 2020 were obtained from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII), which are based on employer logs. Nonfatal injuries included are those that resulted in days away from work (DAFW). Due to changes in SOII publication frequency to biennially, injury data for 2021 are unavailable at this time, and as a result, charts using SOII data are limited to 2011-2020. Full-time equivalent workers (FTEs) were estimated using the BLS Current Population Survey (CPS), a monthly population survey, downloaded through IPUMS. CPWR calculated fatal injury rates per 100,000 FTEs, while nonfatal rates were calculated per 10,000 FTEs.
Url: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/125702
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Authors: Harris, William; Yohannes, Thomas; Trueblood, Amber Brooke
Publisher: CPWR
Data Collections: IPUMS CPS
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure
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