The Chicagoland area, like most metropolitan areas in the United States, utilizes highly skilled and trained construction workers to build, repair and maintain its buildings, utilities, roads and other infrastructure. Unfortunately, even highly skilled and trained workers cannot escape thereality that construction projects will inevitably lead to workplace injuries – some deadly. According to the…

As reported, there are more than 200,000 construction site injuries each year in the U.S.A. The most common types of reported injuries to workers on construction projects are falls and dangerous contact with equipment. Many of these accidents will prove fatal at the rate of 9.5 deaths per 100,000 workers. However, even non-fatal accidents on…