IT PAYS TO KNOW: Why Older People Fall
Falls are a scary thing — especially if you are 65 and older. Just this week, my 70+-year-old neighbor fell.
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Falls are a scary thing — especially if you are 65 and older. Just this week, my 70+-year-old neighbor fell.
Falls from height are the leading cause of death for construction workers,
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“It’s definitely a difficult issue,” the associate director of the NIOSH Office of Construction Safety and Health says.
Of the nearly 1,100 construction deaths recorded in 2022, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, almost 400 involved falls from height.