how many construction workers die each year in the uk?
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Construction is the third most dangerous industry in the United Kingdom, according to the UK's Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) 2018/2019 figures. Responsible for workplace health and safety, the government agency's figures showed that in 2019 30 construction workers died at work.
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In 2014-2016, there were 2.2 million construction workers in the UK. Around 215,000 were from non-UK countries, 10% of the total. In all other sectors excluding construction, 10% of workers were non-UK nationals.
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Author: Pete Pattisson, Guardian (UK), Published on: 16 March 2020. Nine migrant labourers working on the stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar died in 2019, the “supreme committee” organising the event has announced, bringing the number of deaths on World Cup projects to 34, since construction began six years ago.
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The wartime casualties to the fire service during raid firefighting in England and Wales amounted to roughly 700 fireman and 20 firewomen killed in action and 6,000 seriously injured. In one raid alone, 91 firemen died and several hundred were injured protecting London.
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Life expectancy at birth in the UK has slightly increased In 2014 to 2016, life expectancy at birth in the UK was 79.2 years for males and 82.9 years for females. This was a very slight increase from 2013 to 2015 (79.1 years for males and 82.8 years for females) by 4.2 weeks for males and 2.1 weeks for females.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were 7.29M people employed in the Construction Industry Group in 2018. According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Construction Industry Group has been growing at a rate of 2.74%, , from 8.82M people in 2017 to 9.07M people in 2018.
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Nine migrant labourers working on the stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar died in 2019, the “supreme committee” organising the event has announced, bringing the number of deaths on World Cup projects to 34, since construction began six years ago.
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How many homes are being built? There are 247,000 more houses being built in England and Wales every year than are demolished. This is less than a government target of 300,000 new homes in England alone each year but a big increase from a low of 130,000 homes in 2012-13.
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Missing... from afar Recent figures suggest that in less than 1% of missing cases (0.6%), the person is found dead - which equates to about 1,800 people a year. And a recent Metropolitan Police study showed that almost 95% of these people were adults, and three-quarters were men - most had taken their own lives.
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Each day, on average, two construction workers die of work-related injuries in the United States. In fact, one in five workplace fatalities are construction-related. The top causes of construction-related fatalities are falls, struck-by an object, electrocution and caught between objects.
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The population in the UK is getting older with 18% aged 65 and over and 2.4% aged 85 and over. In 2016 there were 285 people aged 65 and over for every 1,000 people aged 16 to 64 years (“traditional working age”).
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Nearly 90 firefighters died on duty in 2017: report. Emmitsburg, MD — Eighty-seven firefighters were killed on the job in 2017, four fewer than in 2016, according to an annual report recently released by the U.S. Fire Administration. “Stress/overexertion” was the leading cause of fatalities, contributing to 52 deaths.
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In 2019, over 1,15 million people were employed in construction (it's 9.0% of all jobs in Australia). A further 118,800 jobs are projected to be added by May 2023. This means we will witness a 10% rise in employment in construction.
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There were 72 victims of the Grenfell fire tragedy in 2017, but none of them were firefighters. Of the 297 occupants inside the Grenfell Tower on the night of the fire, 72 people perished.
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Overall, the provisional annual data for work-related fatal injuries revealed that 147 workers were fatally injured between April 2018 and March 2019 - a rate of 0.45 per 100,000 workers.
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By those standards, the construction safety record for the $35 million Golden Gate Bridge was impressive: only 11 construction workers died. (By contrast, 28 laborers died building the neighboring San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which opened six months prior.)
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Out of 4,779 worker fatalities in private industry in calendar year 2018, 1,008 or 21.1% were in construction — that is, one in five worker deaths last year were in construction.