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Among the most prevalent occupational risk factors, the highest attributable deaths in 2016 were long working hours (>50 hours per week) with over 745,000 deaths. In second place was occupational exposure to particulate matter, gases and fumes at over 450,000 deaths, followed by occupational injuries at over 363,000 deaths.
Construction site safety is an aspect of construction-related activities concerned with protecting construction site workers and others from death, injury, disease or other health-related risks. Construction is an often hazardous, predominantly land-based activity where site workers may be exposed to various risks, some of which remain ...
Instead, rates for these occupations can be averaged over a five or seven-year period to smooth annual fluctuations and provide better comparability to rates for other occupations. An average fatality rate is computed by dividing the sum of the fatalities across the years by the sum of the annual employment figures for the given occupation over ...
A 2012 study in Science found that OSHA's random workplace safety inspections caused a "9.4% decline in injury rates" and a "26% reduction in injury cost" for the inspected firms. [3] The study found "no evidence that these improvements came at the expense of employment, sales, credit ratings, or firm survival."
A federal investigation into a worker who was crushed to death at a Port Everglades area cement facility resulted in $82,269 of proposed OSHA fines for the two companies involved.
OSHA wants Downrite Engineering to pay $258,935 for 22 violations leading to the Jan. 26 workplace death. ... A Miami company is fighting $40,000 of OSHA fines after the electrocution death of a ...
The annual average fatality rate was 0.9 deaths per 100,000 workers. Workers employed in the trucking industry accounted for the greatest number (2,320) and highest rate of highway transportation deaths (19.6 per 100,000 workers).
OSHA Area Director Larry Johnson confirmed to The Dispatch the agency is investigating the incident. Johnson said the death resulted from a stack of plywood of over 1,000 lbs. hitting Hawker.