Security managers and risk managers have always been aware of injuries and deaths in parking garages caused by assaults and vehicles. What is shocking is that there is only a miniscule amount of data on injuries and deaths in parking garages. OSHA does not even track work-related injuries or deaths of employees caused by auto-pedestrian crashes in garages. The private business sector has little incentive to track injuries and deaths caused by reckless drivers in their parking garages. Many businesses purposely do not record data on auto-pedestrian incidents in their garages out of business concerns.
In a 2002 study, over a 10-year period, Gregory Fayard, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, estimated that approximately 3% of all workplace injuries and deaths occur in parking garages. Of the 206 annual employee fatalities, 15% of these —31 deaths a year — are pedestrian employees killed by reckless drivers. Some experts estimate that up to 500 pedestrians are killed every year in parking garages in the United States.