Work Zone Safety Facts & Statistics
- Over the last five years, the number of persons killed in motor vehicle crashes in work zones has averaged 1,011 fatalities a year).
- There were 835 work zone fatalities in 2007, a 10-year low.
- Eighty-five percent of those killed in a work zone are drivers or occupants.
- On average from 2003 to 2007 about 15 percent of the fatalities resulting from crashes in work zones were non-motorists (pedestrians and bicyclists).
- More than 40,000 people are injured each year as a result of motor vehicle crashes in work zones.
- In addition:
- approximately half of all fatal work zone crashes occurred during the day.
- more than two times as many fatal work zone crashes occurred on weekdays as on weekends.
- fatal work zone crashes occurred most often in the summer and the fall.
- The most recent work zone fatality information is posted on the crash data section of the National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse www.workzonesafety.org/crash_data
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health work zone information: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/highwayworkzones/
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Sources: Fatal crashes and fatalities - Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)
Injuries - General Estimates System (GES)
