Dive summary:

• It's a scary number: 38% of contractors on U.S. road projects reported that they had a crash happen in at least one of their work zones in 2012.
• Contractors say worker training is important, but it's just as important or more so to find a way to make drivers more careful and aware of the dangers.
• It might help if drivers knew that they are more likely to be killed in a work-zone crash than a worker is.

From the article:

“Any time your job site is just a few feet away from fast moving traffic, danger is never far away,” said Mike Hoover, the chair of the association’s national highway and transportation division and executive vice president of Tempe, Ariz.-based Sundt Construction ...