Could This Have Been You? On average, 5,000 to 6,000 workers are killed each year. Learn from the following reports of real workplace fatalities to avoid a similar fate. A 61-year-old construction supervisor was fatally injured when he fell from a roof. The victim was an experienced construction worker who had worked for his employer for about two years. On the day of the accident, he started work on the roof before the work crew arrived. He was working at or near the edge of the roof, approximately 17 feet (about five meters) from the ground, and he was not wearing fall protection […]