Electrical burns make up 4% to 6.5% of all admissions to burn units in the United States and result in approximately 1,000 deaths (electrocutions) each year, most of them preventable. Electrical accidents and electrocution are one of the highest causes of death for workers in the construction industry. When a worker’s body or tool he [...]
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Construction is a dangerous industry, with high rates of fatal and nonfatal injuries. Each year, several thousand construction workers are killed and hundreds of thousands are injured in work-related accidents. The construction worker may be injured or killed during the construction (or demolition) of a singe family residence, a planned community, a strip mall, a [...]
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Among its various duties, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is responsible for the planning, design, construction, maintenance, repair, and management of more than 45,000 miles of California’s highways and freeways. Caltrans and its predecessors have been active in moving the people and commerce of California for more than 100 years from a loosely connected [...]
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There are two types of road construction accidents: (1) accidents resulting from the actual construction of a road, freeway, bridge, on- or off-ramp, etc., and (2) accidents that arise from a road that was built with no structural flaws but is inherently dangerous because of its design, lack of or improperly timed traffic signals, or [...]
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