Construction-related deaths have doubled and injuries have surged 17 percent as building booms in the Big Apple. Eight people have died in construction accidents in the first seven months of the ...

According the Federal Highway Association , each year nationwide over 20,000 workers are injured in road construction work zones. Between 2003-2008, these injuries were caused by: • Contact with ...

In 2005, 39 construction workers died, more than half of them 22 workers by falling from heights, or after they were hit by falling items. The number of deaths increased 14.7 per cent from 2004 ...

Last year's death toll was 23 in construction-related accidents, a 16 per cent increase from 2003. The number could be higher if all accidents in free zones in Dubai were taken into account.