New Fall Protection Website for Residential Construction Workers

House Being Built

Falls are the number one cause of fatal accidents in construction, with these deaths accounting for 36.9 percentĀ of construction fatalities in 2013. Many of these deaths occur in residential construction, and beginning in 2010, OSHA began enforcingĀ its fall protection standard for all residential construction sites, not just commercial construction sites (see 29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13)). To