Staggering Statistics by the Federal Highway Administration

The next time you go on a call to tow a car stranded on the highway, keep in mind these statistics by the Federal Highway Administration:

• One work zone fatality every 10 hours (2.3 a day)
• One work zone injury every 13 minutes (110 a day)
• An average of 40,000 injuries a year

Towers, this is the environment to which you must often work. Usually with the spartan protection of a few lights, flares, and Atomic yellow vests. Do the math, on a roadside, every second you spend hooking a car, changing a tire, fixing a snatch block, moves you closer and closer to the statistics above. Here is the link to what the government is doing to combat this.

http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/wz/facts_stats/