Construction Worker Falls In Hole At Raleigh Wastewater Treatment Plant WRAL.com, NC
In the past three months, there have been six construction accidents in Wake and Johnston counties involving Hispanic workers.
While workplace deaths in North Carolina have been dropping, the number of Hispanics killed on the job has been rising.
The latest federal numbers showed 203 workplace deaths in the state in 2001. The tragedies dropped dramatically in 2002 to 169.
Hispanic numbers go the other direction. Twenty workers died in 2001; 25 were killed on job sites in 2002.