No federal heat standard exists and lobbyists, corporate interests and those with fiercely anti-regulatory agendas have been vocal and active in keeping it that way.
471 truck drivers in the transportation industry suffered fatal injuries on the job in 2019, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. That sector's fatality rate was 27.2 worker deaths per 100,000 compared to the U.S. overall rate of 3.5 deaths per 100,000 full-time workers.
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It’s the nature of the work.
Construction is no easy task – it involves lifting, transporting materials, operating equipment, drilling, hammering and a host of other duties. It often involves manual, challenging work that is often dangerous.
The nature of those tasks puts workers at risk for a variety of injuries, from slips and falls to burns and machinery collisions. Construction workers experienced the second-highest rate of fatal injuries from 2015-2109, after transportation workers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, published in December 2020. And that number was up from previous years. Construction and extraction workers had a 6% increase in fatal injuries in 2019, to 1,066 deaths. That’s the highest number since 2007.
Throughout 2020, Americans gained a new appreciation for many previously overlooked laborers, as those delivering food, stocking shelves, and working cash registers were deemed essential workers amid the COVID-19 outbreak.