Company: Provizio
LinkedIn Post Text: Safety on construction and mining sites often comes down to the few meters between a heavy machine and the people working beside it. These environments are notoriously dangerous; the International Labour Organisation reports roughly 200,000 fatal workplace injuries in these sectors every year. And it’s the pedestrian workers on the ground, not the operators in the cab, who face the greatest risk.While you might expect recent advances in regulations and safety to have reduced such accidents, in the U.S., mining deaths actually ticked upward from 28 in 2024 to 33 in 2025.The technical hurdle for traditional safety sensors in this industry has always been the same: how do you spot a person when they are standing right next to a massive, metal machine that reflects radar like a mirror?You can see this difficulty in the video. A worker walks up to a stationary excavator, climbs in and operates it, then exits and walks away. On the left is the standard camera view. On the
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