Work Zone Safety Data

Embedded Dataset Excel:

Dataset Excel:

Notes:

FARS data shown here are from the 50 States and the District of Columbia.

Description:

^a Occupants of a non-motor vehicle transport device and persons on personal conveyances.

^b The road construction location category was implemented in 1995. Includes road construction workers and vehicle occupants fatally injured in work zones. 

^c Starting 2019, data only include road construction workers. 

Source:

Fatalities, Fatal crashes, Crash type:

U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Data, Fatality and Injury Reporting System Tool (FIRST), available at http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/ as of Apr. 25, 2023

Worker fatalities:

2005-18: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, available at https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshcfoi1.htm#2019 as of Apr. 26, 2021.

2019-21: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Data Retrieval Tools, Series ID: FWUY6X2373XX80N00, available at https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/srgate as of Jun. 22, 2023.