Number of Fatal Injuries for Mobile Elevating Work Platforms Remains Constant
Despite increases in the number of elevating work and aerial platforms being utilized, fatal incident rates have not increased.
The fatal injury rate for mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs), or aerial work platforms (AWPs), has remained constant, even though the total MEWP rental fleet and the number of rental days worldwide have increased. International Powered Access Federation’s release of the 2015 MEWP-related accident data and its preliminary fatal injury rate calculations find that for 2015, the number of days a rented machine was operated per year was 192.2 million and the number of reported MEWP fatalities was 68, to give a fatal injury rate of 0.035.
