Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse

Library of Resources to Improve Roadway Work Zone Safety for All Roadway Users

WZ-12

Looking at long-term trends, the percentage of worker fatalities at road construction sites that involve a worker on foot being struck by a vehicle generally decreased from 2011 to 2015 but has been increasing since then. In 2020, more than half of the highway worker fatalities at road construction sites were of this type. It is not known how many of the workers on foot were struck by motorists versus struck by construction vehicles. It is also not known what specific activities the workers were doing at the time of the incident (putting up or taking down signs or channelizing devices, surveying, paving, etc.)