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>the death rate either hasn't budged at all https://archive.ph/n3VaY
That's just the last 10 years. Furthermore, it say OSHA basically can't do much
more to lower it than instituting standards in the first place already has.
<With last year’s staff levels, for example, it would have taken inspectors 236 years to visit every workplace in the U.S
>Or returned to what it originally was: https://archive.ph/nvZYs
That's the total number of deaths, not death rates. The construction industry is unsurprisingly growing, with over a 30% increase in the number of workers over the last decade or so. The fact that there's drops at all in that first graph means the death rate not only dropped, but dropped significantly during those years, as the amount of workers has done nothing but increase. If in 2020 the amount of worker deaths is only slightly more than it was in 1992, even though there were
far less construction workers in 1992, that means the death rates are significantly lower. Stagnation in the drop in death rates seems to be a symptom of the last 10 years or so, long after there's already been mountains of safety regulations. The first video posted earlier compared the Empire State Building and the WTC, but the WTC was built in the 60s-70s, when there was still a lot less safety regulations.
>Or is now increasing in occurrence: https://archive.ph/LPHLR
Increase in fatalities, not rates. Specifically, 11% increase in fatalities over the last decade, and 31% increase in hispanic fatalities. Meanwhile, the workforce increased over 30% in that same decade, so fatality rates must have dropped a fair bit.
>https://archive.ph/gGleG
Totals again, not rates.
>https://archive.ph/9uqum
Now
this one talks about rates, however, it's at odds with the other articles. It says the fatality rate rose from 9 per 100,000 to 10 per 100,000. That contradicts other articles you posted that show a similar total number of deaths as 3 decades ago in spite of a much larger workforce these years.
>https://archive.ph/GTmjE
The graph from this one massively contradicts the first graph. It mentions a 25% increase in construction workers from 2011 to 2019. According to it's own graph, in the same time period, there's a 44% increase in deaths and thus a significant increase in the death rate. Yet for some reason they didn't seem fit to mention that, and such a number is at odds with the 10-11% increases over the same decade that most of your other sources claim.