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Darrell Robinson's avatar

Commercial subcontractors are laser-focused on their EMR rate, which drives what jobs can be bid/built. Roofers are primarily residential construction, which may be too focused on low-bid work. Not sure how to fix that.

I suspect there's a high number of deaths in ditch work also, which might be classified as excavation or pipe-laying. Cave-ins are all too common.

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Matt Dwyer's avatar

There seems to be far less enforcement of construction safety in recent years. OSHA who?

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