Construction work is hazardous, and manypeople in the trades accept that risk as a badge of honor. But it’s safe to say that none of them go to work each morning expecting to be injured or killed on the job. Yet it happens with regularity.

One in five fatal work injuries involve construction workers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS); 986 of them died in 2021 from on-the-job injuries—a mortality rate of 12.4 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers. Only the transportation sector fared worse.

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