What happened: With the 2025 National Work Zone Awareness Week kicking off in Raleigh, N.C. this week, members of the transportation construction industry got a firsthand look at new equipment designed to keep road workers out of harm’s way. Among the tech on display was the Rover by PSS that realigns and retrieves temporary rumble strips, which eliminates the need for workers to be out in live traffic.
Why it matters: Eighty-eight workers died in work zones in 2023, the most recent year data is available. Thanks to several factors, including safer tools and technologies, yearly deaths have been trending downwards. An ARTBA analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that between 2011 and 2023, fatal injuries in the Highway, Street, and Bridge (HSB) sector declined 15 percent. With equipment like Rover in the marketplace, industry experts hope those numbers will continue to decline.
What’s next: Check out the Rover and other PSS products now available.
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