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Resources to Prevent Suicide Deaths in Construction
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Frank King -- The Mental Health Comedian Frank King -- The Mental Health Comedian
Springfield, OR
Tuesday, December 30, 2025


Suicide Prevention Speaker and Comedian
 
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Construction workers have significantly higher rates of injuries, fatalities, death by suicide, and overdose deaths than American workers overall.

For example, although construction workers are only about 7% of the entire workforce, they were 20% of on-the-job fatalities and 16% of opioid overdoses.

As the chart to the right shows, in 2023 there were 982 fatal injuries among construction workers — and 15,910 fatal overdoses and 5,095 suicides.

Read More: https://www.cpwr.com/research/research-to-practice-r2p/r2p-library/other-resources-for-stakeholders/mental-health-addiction/

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