The high proportion of human injuries and deaths caused by road construction telephone may be attributed to crashes involving drivers and workers. Traffic accidents such as workers' collision and construction site collisions accounted for about 40% of all workplace deaths in 2008 and decreased from 2,351 cases recorded in 2007. In addition, a fatal highway accident was 19% 1,149 people died from 2007 to 2008, deaths declined nationwide from 2008 to 2009, but it increased in California, Says James Ballidis, a personal injury lawyer.
According to the National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse nationwide, 667 people died in the car accident including the work area in 2009, 7.4% from 2008, 20% from 2007, 34% from 2006 . As a result of the US reconstruction and reinvestment law, according to recent data from the US Department of Transportation, the number of deaths in highway work areas has declined to the lowest level since 1992.
The Ministry of Transport attributed this reduction to several factors. Safety program of millions of dollars work center that the Federal Highway Administration has conducted to train over 46,000 highway workers. Improvement of work zone design. Law enforcement was strengthened near the work center. In addition, the FWHA issued several new federal regulations to improve worker safety, including the requirement that workers wear highly visible garments.
The nationwide incidence of injuries and deaths suffered by road construction workers declined, but an increase was recorded in some states. According to local lawyers, the number of deaths increased from 0 to 5 from 2008 to 2009. Increases were recorded in Florida, the number of deaths in 2009 increased by six compared to 2008, the number of deaths increased from 0 to 8 in Arkansas.
An accident recently occurring in Palm Desert, California shows one of the most common ways in which street workers are injured or die during work. A person driving Hovley Lane came in between the workers and the construction vehicle. Both the driver and the workers were injured in the accident.
The driver gives the road construction workers a great risk. In the survey of occupational accidents that occurred between 1995 and 2002, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics stated that more than half of the 844 deaths affected by the disaster stemmed from the fact that vehicles or mobile devices hit workers It was discovered.
April is the beginning of the US road construction season. Citizens need to be careful to protect workers working to improve the country 's transportation system, as the site is specified along roads and highways.
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