Earlier this week, no further than 30 miles from where I am writing this article, an excavation company working on a utility construction project had a trench collapse on two of their workers with one of those crew members losing their life.
In 2015, there were 4,836 workers who lost their lives to on-the-job incidents and work-related illnesses according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). On an average, that equates to 93 per week or roughly 13 deaths per day. The construction industry accounted for 937 of those deaths.