No roofing contractor or any other construction worker goes to the jobsite on a given day and expects to die — but the harsh truth is that people do.
Roofing is a dangerous business. Forbes magazine recently listed roofing as the 6th most dangerous job in America. The U.S. Department of Labor reports that out of the 4,251 private industry deaths in the U.S. workplace during 2014, 20.5 percent were in construction. As far as a percentage of deaths, fall deaths are unequivocally number one. Falls represent 39.9 percent of all deaths, followed by