Four construction worker deaths each day

Posted by Staff on June 24, 2008 |

Mark Ayers, president of Building and Construction Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) gives statistics regarding the number of deaths of construction workers compared to the number of deaths of firefighters and law enforcement officers. He says there is a better chance of surviving a tour of duty in Iraq than to survive a day on a construction site. Ayers says on average, four construction workers are killed each day. (1:19)

 
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June 24, 2008
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