A surge in fatal accidents and injuries has provoked the provincial Ministry of Labour in Ontario to say it will almost double the number of workplace safety inspectors, now at 230. Construction accounted for 30 of the province's 73 workplace fatalities in 2003, up from 20 the year prior, says a ministry spokesman. Half of last year's construction deaths came in falls, some involving properly equipped workers who failed to tie off. Another contributing factor is the presence of an underground construction economy, especially involving homes, that uses poorly trained workers. "We need to get those workers into the safety and prevention loop," says Mike Gallagher, president of the Construction Safety Association of Ontario and business manager for Toronto, Ontario-based Local 793 of the International Union of Operating Engineers.