Fundamental Analyses on Industrial Accidents in the Construction Industry

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  • Tamate Satoshi
    Center for Occupational Accident Investigation, National Institute of OccupationalSafety and Health, Japan

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  • 建設業における労働災害の基礎的分析
  • ケンセツギョウ ニ オケル ロウドウ サイガイ ノ キソテキ ブンセキ

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<p>This study summarizes recent records of labor accidents in the construction industry as well as all industries. The number of occupational accidents in the construction industry had decreased to 1/10th between 1961 and 2020. In addition, accident frequency rate in the construction industry shows a drastic decrease of 1/60 between 1954 and 2018. Since the value of the fatality ratio in the construction industry reaches 4.5 times to that in all industries, however, problem of high fatality still exists in construction industry. From analyses of fatal accidents in construction industry between 2014 and 2018, a category of temporary facilities, buildings, structures, etc shows a high ratio of occurrence in cause of accident in comparison with all industries. Moreover, similar accidents induced by construction machineries and mobile cranes were distributed in several categories of falling to a lower level, falling on same level and being struck by object. This study indicates that a several sets prevention measures should be carried out together to reduce the potential risk of reaching damage to personnel.</p>

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