OSHA has put a special emphasis on improving fall protection lately, but it doesn’t appear that it has done much to reduce the number of construction injuries. Why exactly is this the case? Are companies failing to heed OSHA’s continued warnings? Fall accidents are still the top cause of deaths in the construction industry. To give you a sense of how big the problem is, 39.9 percent of all construction deaths happen because of falls. That’s a total of 359 deaths per year. Des