According to the data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around seven million Americans are working in construction, accounting for about four percent of the total employed workforce in the country.
Construction workers are five times more likely to be injured at their workplace and also suffer from fatal accidents compared to workers in most other industries.
Being hit by objects accounts for as much as ten percent of all deaths and electrocutions cause almost nine percent of casualties and getting caught in or between causes around seven percent of all fatalities.
Everyone working in construction, masons to carpenters, electricians to plumbers, steamfitters to pipe fitters are at risk.
Those who work for over forty years have a seventy-five percent chance of sustaining an injury that can cause some disability.
Glasses, gloves and garments, shoes and various kinds of protective gear are already available.
