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Statistics for Construction
Claims by Accident Type (Five Year Average)
Mechanisms of Injury Sheets
Key Causes of Injuries for the 19 Industries with the Construction Sector
Hundreds of different types of accidents occur within the Construction sector each year. Statistics show that falls, struck by or against, and overexertion accidents represent the largest percentage of claim volumes and costs.
WorkSafeBC developed the following Mechanisms of Injury sheets so that employers can focus on preventing the types of accidents that have the greatest impact on their workers and industries. The sheets provide detailed information on the three main accident types for 19 industries with the construction sector.
Mechanisms of Injury sheets by Classification Unit (CUs)
Note: The Mechanisms of Injury sheets contain cost measures designated as Fully Reserved Claim Costs (FRCC). FRCC include claim payments made to date plus the anticipated future liability associated with these claims. The future liability component is not statistically credible with small aggregations of claims.
Therefore, users should be cautioned that the costs associated with accident characteristics that have few claims could be considered an "order of magnitude" but not a factual representation of their true cost. Actuarial valuations of claims are performed monthly, and these resulting values change from month to month.
Source of data: WorkSafeBC Data Warehouse for 2003-2005 (as of December 31, 2006). These sheets are currently being updated for 2004-2006.
Watch out for hazards: Poster illustrating worker fatalities
This poster graphically illustrates the causes of 249 worker fatalities in the construction industry between 1991 and 2000.
Source: WorkSafeBC
* PDF (293 KB)
Prevention Matters: October 22, 2001
This article, originally published in the Journal of Commerce graphically illustrates the most common causes of fatalities in the construction industry. The proportion of work-related deaths has been changing with single-incident deaths decreasing and work-related disease deaths increasing.
Source: WorkSafeBC
* PDF (20 KB)
Date: October 22, 2001
Analysis of Construction Fatalities -- The OSHA DataBase 1985-1989
"This report presents the results of an analysis of the 3,496 construction fatalities investigated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and included in the Agency's Integrated Management Information System data base for the period 1985 to 1989." (November 1990)
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