By Doug Cunningham

Even though most workers dying in construction accidents are on low-rise non-union worksites, New York City Buildings Department is still focusing more enforcement on union high-rise jobs. Lou Coletti is President of the Building Trades Employers Association. Coletti says on average over the years OSHA records show union high-rise jobs are far safer than non-union.

[Coletti]: “Seventy-five percent of the fatalities are on non-union jobs below ten stories.”