Tower Climbers See Dramatic Increase in Numbers

February 20, 2015

The number of tower climbers serving the wireless industry has grown to more than 29,000 from 9,800 in 2006, according to a study conducted by Wireless Estimator.

“The significant increase comes with a slightly positive upshot for the industry’s safety ranking compared to other high risk professions. Whereas tower construction is often tagged by the media as the most dangerous job in America – and it clearly had been in 2006 – based upon the number of deaths per 100,000 workers used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics,” Wireless Estimator’s Craig Lekutis wrote on the firm’s web site.

The multi-question survey was taken between June 2013 and August of 2014 and consisted of 272 company managers who provided the number of crews and tower technicians that they employed.

For more information, visit www.wirelessestimator.com