The document discusses safety issues during the construction of tall buildings like the Empire State Building. While official records state that only 5 workers died during construction of the Empire State Building from various accidents like falls, some workers may have fallen to their death from the building as well. Even with safety protocols in place, falls remain a leading cause of construction worker deaths today, often due to issues like lack of training, planning, inspections, or complacency regarding safety procedures.

1. Building the Empire State Building

2. In the heights

3. can deliver information to our computer screen in seconds. It can link research done
by millions of people together to accomplish things that were previously impossible.

4. both at home and on the job.

6. One in three
construction worker
deaths is caused by
falls.

7. why are workers still being killed by falls in construction accidents?

8. Inadequacies
• Failure to provide fall
protection
• Failure to use fall protection
• Inadequate systems
• Inadequate risk
assessments

9. • Lack of training
• Lack of planning
• Lack of inspection of
equipment
• Complacency
Complacency

10. Are you protected?

12. • Official records state
that only five workers
were killed during the
construction of the
empire state building
• One worker was
struck by a truck; a
second fell down an
elevator shaft; a third
was hit by a hoist; a
fourth was in a blast
area; and a fifth fell off
a scaffold.

13. have jumped to their death from
the empire state building.

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