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Although construction worker safety and health has improved over the past decade, it continues to be a concern for the industry. Fatal work injuries in the private construction sector declined by 16%: in 2009, yet construction incurred the most fatal injuries of any industry (BLS, 2010). Worker injuries and illnesses in construction cost billions each year (NSC, 2006). Everett and Frank (1996) examined the costs of construction injuries and report that the total cost of accidents has increased 7.9%: to 15.0%: of the total cost of nonresidential, new construction.

The causes of injuries and illnesses in construction have long been recognized, and numerous interventions have been developed, yet their persistence continues to frustrate construction safety practitioners and researchers (Hill, 2003). New methods and tools are required to pre-vent these injuries and illnesses. One such tool is building information modeling …