Sanchez asks how workers are falling on construction sites
Sanchez asks whether workers fall into unobstructed holes or fail to wear harnesses; Tigani describes a wide range including trip hazards, unorganized sites, improper handling of equipment at heights, and poorly installed temporary stair landings, noting DOB partners with industry groups on tie-off rescue demonstrations and repetition.
Thank you.
What is it about, are people falling into unobstructed holes or folks not wearing harnesses?
What is it?
How is it that workers are falling?
It's a wide range of things.
Trip and fall hazards, if material is not put in the places they're supposed to and people are navigating.
Unorganized sites or if people are at elevated places and they're handling too much equipment or there's enough people around that's securing and creating a secure environment and someone falls.
I mean, there are a number of, or if the structures to move up and down, temporary staircases are installed and the right landing or walk-off point isn't put in properly.
There's a lot of different ways that we count falls and ways to prevent those issues.
Just wanted to highlight in 2018, we had 759 worker related injuries.
And as the commissioner and chair, you mentioned year to date in terms of number injuries, we are at for calendar year 2026.
266.
That is a substantial
decrease in the number of injuries that we're seeing at construction sites.
And everything that we've been talking about here today, and happy to continue working with the council on just making that number get to zero, right?
That should be the goal of everyone here.