building the empire state building

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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