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D.C. Circuit turns down challenges from construction, other industry organizations.

Fatalities in private-sector construction were up 5%, to 991, last year, highest level since at least 2008.

Specialty-trade contractors gain 22,600 jobs, but heavy-civil sector sheds 7,800.

Seven construction groups are urging the U.K. government and employers to secure the industry’s migrant workforce amid continuing negotiations over the country’s withdrawal from the European Union in March 2019.