Building the empire state building
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Building the Empire State Building
In the heights
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One in three
construction worker
deaths is caused by
falls.
why are workers still being killed by falls in construction accidents?
• Failure to provide fall
protection
• Failure to use fall protection
• Inadequate systems
• Inadequate risk
assessments Inadequacies
• Lack of training
• Lack of planning
• Lack of inspection of
equipment
• Complacency
Complacency
Are you protected?
• Official records state
that only five workers
were killed during the
construction of the
empire state building
• One worker was
struck by a truck; a
second fell down an
elevator shaft; a third
was hit by a hoist; a
fourth was in a blast
area; and a fifth fell off
a scaffold.
have jumped to their death from
the empire state building.
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