Volume : III, Issue : XI, November - 2014

Nature of Fall Accidents in Construction Industry: An Indian Scenario

C. Vigneshkumar

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Fall accidents in construction projects, particularly building works, are the most frequent accidents. Those accidents may results in death and serious injuries of workers involved and other consequences such as lost of work days and the industry bad image. Robust accident prevention is required through improving continuously health and safety in construction. Therefore, understanding triggering events and their factors leading to fall accidents are of important input. The objective of this paper is to findings of triggering events based past fall accident cases in India. The fall accident cases were retrieved from accident reports provided by ADSI 2012 and Indian statistical report 2012. In this paper, current profile of accident records of India is presented. This paper also presents the nature of fall accidents. The event area and their potential active failures leading to fall of accidents are described. It is expected the knowledge shared in this paper assist all people involved in construction projects to plan an accident prevention strategy properly

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C.Vigneshkumar Nature of Fall Accidents in Construction Industry: An Indian Scenario International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 3, Issue : 11 November 2014

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