Hammertech Finds Safety Insights in Study Analyzing Thousands of Jobsite Incidents
More than 75,000 incidents between 2018 and 2024 were studied in new report
Hammertech's "Safety at Scale" report details insights from over 75,000 safety incident reports from 2018 to 2025.
"Safety at Scale 2025: Construction Insights from the Field" is HammerTech’s first data-backed safety report. The findings in it, draw from analysis of more than 75,000 safety incidents recorded in the Hammertech platform between 2018 and 2024.
The report found that three areas of safety or injury mechanisms account for more than 60% of incidents on jobsites. Hitting objects with a part of the body accounted for 33% of the reports. Being hit by moving objects, such as crane booms, accounted for nearly 17% of the reported injuries and nearly 13% of the incidents involved workers reporting falls on the same level.
"Understanding how injuries occur—not just what injuries happen—can provide a stronger basis for targeted controls, adjusting work practices, and engaging teams in prevention strategies," the report's authors wrote.
Mike Gloria, senior safety manager at Power Construction in Chicago, says that safety reports, which record the activities being performed when injuries happen, add context to contractor policies.
"What are the main key performance indicators that we should be looking at in the industry, rather than just OSHA rate numbers or anything like that. There's always more information in the background," he said.
Gloria explains that while Power pores over its own safety data for insights it can pull from its jobsites, the larger dataset based on Hammertech's users is more robust. He said Power records the time of day of incidents and trends them, but the data doesn't show any trend linked to time of day.
"There's only the delta between the least frequent time of day and the most frequent is only, I think 19, incidents over our entire data scale," Gloria said. "There's no trend as to certain incidents happen at certain times."
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The Safety at Scale report found that in its full dataset of tens of thousands of recorded incidents across various regions and project types, more injuries are recorded at 9 a.m. than at any other time of the day.
"This timing generally sits just after site start-up, when crews are mobilized, work has ramped up, and early planning is giving way to physical tasks. In many regions, it also coincides with the first scheduled breaks," according to the report.
Andrew Barron, chief product officer at Melbourne, Australia-based Hammertech, says that the data in the report provides a baseline for contractor safety leaders to focus policies and better understand what's happening at their sites.
"We as a an industry—construction as a safety group of professionals and us as a vendor—we think there's great opportunity if we can have this much confidence in our data, to then start applying artificial intelligence through this data set to sort of bring some of these findings to the platforming workers hands So this is a layering effect that we're gonna continue to evolve."
