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22-75 m 9 fatalities … … … 19-21 m 2 16-18 m 1 13-15 m 2 10-12 m 6 7-9 m 12 4-6 m 31 1-3 m 26 ADDITIONAL INSIGHTS • The three most common contributing factors to falls were lack of worksite instruction, not wearing personal protection equipment (PPE) and lack of falls training. • Roofing contractors and residential building construction were the sectors with the most number of fatalities. They had large than average instances of lack of worksite instruction and wearing PPE improperly. • Among the 60 construction fatalities analyzed, 32 workers had fall prevention training (53%), 20 didn't receive training (33%), training information was not available in 8 of the analyzed construction fatalities (13%). Among 32 construction fatalities where training was evident, the most common factors were wearing PPE improperly, lack of worksite instruction and not wearing PPE. • Small businesses featured a larger proportion of the following factors: pushed or struck by object, unsafe scaffold, unsafe ladder, unsafe behavior/misjudgment, lack of falls training and not wearing PPE. • Fatalities peak in August, but are generally more frequent from June through December. • Fatalities peak at 11 am and 2 pm and plummet at 12 pm. Fatalities steadily decline after 2 pm. • Fatalities by age are distributed in a bell curve with nearly equal occurrence in the 15-24 and 65+ age groups. • The 55-64 and 65+ age groups had a larger than average number of fatalities due to not wearing PPE. Height (m) Worker Location 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10- 19 20+ Total Roof 4 3 2 9 2 3 1 4 28 Ladder 1 7 1 1 4 3 1 1 2 21 Scaffold 1 3 1 2 1 8 Suspended Platform 1 6 7 Floor 4 1 1 6 Moving Equipment 1 2 1 1 5 Other 1 1 1 1 4 Tree 1 1 1 3 Road/Ramp/Dock 1 1 1 3 Balcony 1 1 2 Platform 1 1 2 Total 3 9 14 8 7 16 3 5 4 9 11 89 Height of Fall *Height of fall information was available in 89 of the 92 analyzed fatalities.