Assignment:
Research Paper
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has identified four categories of hazards that account for more than 50% of all construction fatalities:
falls (36.5%),struck-by object (10.1%), electrocutions (8.6%), and caught-in/between (2.5%).
Assignment is to write a research paper involving one of these four construction hazard categories. You may narrow your topic down to a more specific type of accident within the major category.
For example, under falls, you could focus your research on falls from ladders. When writing the paper, consider the questions below.
1. What are the common causative factors?
2. What does data indicate?
3. What are the effective proven corrective measures?