AGC Joins Work Zone Awareness Week Kick-Off Event

The 10th annual Work Zone Awareness Week began this week, and includes events around the country to raise awareness of the importance of highway work zone safety.  An event outside Washington, D.C., featured a tour of an AGC member project site led by Michael Hart, Cianbro Construction Corp. Local media attended the event and captured AGC's call to reduce the number of highway work zone fatalities by fifty percent within the next two years.  On average, 1,000 people are killed each year in highway work zones, and AGC's CEO Steve Sandherr noted that it should not cost a life to rebuild a road or repair a bridge. AGC of South Dakota raised awareness by announcing that sixteen people have been killed in the state due to work zone accidents in the last five years.  AGC of SD's executive vice president Toby Crow echoed AGC's call to cut highway work zone fatalities in half in the next two years. For more information, contact Brian Turmail at (703) 837-5310 or turmailb@agc.org.