Table 5.

FACE reports in construction, by case event circumstances, 1982–2014.

Characteristic	Number	Percent
Event or exposure
Contact with objects and equipment	150	19.5%
Struck by/against object or equipment	74	9.6%
Caught in/compressed by equipment or objects	47	6.1%
Excavation or trenching cave-in	29	3.8%
Falls	325	42.3%
Fall through floor opening/surface	24	3.1%
Fall from ladder	43	5.6%
Fall through existing roof opening	22	2.9%
Fall through roof surface	13	1.7%
Fall through skylight	18	2.3%
Fall from roof edge	49	6.4%
Fall from scaffold, staging	54	7.0%
Fall from building girders, other structural steel	36	4.7%
Fall to lower level, n.e.c.	66	8.6%
Exposure to harmful substances or environments	161	21.0%
Contact with electric current or wiring, etc.	50	6.5%
Contact with overhead power lines	86	11.2%
Inhalation/depletion of oxygen in confined space	18	2.3%
Drowning, submersion	7	0.9%
Transportation accidents	105	13.7%
Collision accident	7	0.9%
Non-collision accident	39	5.1%
Pedestrian accident	59	7.7%
Fires and explosions	10	1.3%
Other, n.e.c.	17	2.2%
Location
Nonresidential construction site	262	34.1%
Residential construction site	106	13.8%
Home (home/apartment/farmhouse/n.e.c.)	83	10.8%
Industrial places & premises	77	10.0%
Road construction site	66	8.6%
Public building	51	6.6%
Street & highway	42	5.5%
Parking lot, garage	17	2.2%
Other, n.e.c.	56	7.3%
Unknown/not reported	8	1.0%
Number of workers on injury site
Working alone	42	5.5%
2 workers	164	21.4%
3 workers	119	15.5%
4 workers	97	12.6%
5 workers	73	9.5%
6–9 workers	99	12.9%
10–19 workers	42	5.5%
20–99 workers	24	3.1%
100 + workers	5	0.7%
Unknown/not reported	103	13.4%
Using safety equipment
Yes	119	15.5%
No	393	51.2%
Unknown/not reported	256	33.3%
Total fatalities	768	100.0%