From the vantage point of the construction industry, incidents of falls involving workers remain a primary peril of the trade. This fact is supported by numbers as culled by the Center for Construction Research and Training. In a recent study of the organization, 20,498 cases of occupational fatality in the construction sector were recorded, almost a third of which was directly related to falls. Of the staggering figure of 6,591 people who died in job sites from 1992 to 2009, 2,163 fell off the roof and sustained lethal injuries. Many of the casualties were employed in small firms that are in the Omaha roofing business, or are roofers in other US cities. The study also found that workers of Hispanic descent, foreign-born or immigrants, and construction hands who work on residential structures repairing or replacing roofs were more prone to on-site accidents than any other kind of construction assistants.
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