Almost entirely because of rooftop solar. Contractors doing lots of small jobs end up cutting corners including foregoing safety gear (“how much is a fall from

Almost entirely because of rooftop solar. Contractors doing lots of small jobs end up cutting corners including foregoing safety gear (“how much is a fall from a roof going to hurt anyway”) and the inevitable death-per-thousand-installs basically blows the deaths-per-MW-capacity figure out of the water. Nuclear plants tend to be large, tightly regulated work sites where things like fences and safety rails can be installed for little cost of time and money relative to the overall cost of the project. Solar farms have deaths too, the usual fatalities expected from humans working around forklifts, cranes, and other heavy equipment. Nuclear plants have all the extra joys of falls from heights (ref fences and cutting corners), asphyxiation in confined spaces, concrete injuries (skin burns, lung damage), etc. This is all highly simplified, the pedants will argue the decimal points but I am only talking hand-wavy numbers.