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title: How to Prepare Your Jobsite, Train Your Team, and Minimize Risk During Severe Weather Events
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# [How to Prepare Your Jobsite, Train Your Team, and Minimize Risk During Severe Weather Events](https://oldrepublic.com/blog/how-to-prepare-your-jobsite-train-your-team-and-minimize-risk-during-severe-weather-events)

 Written by [BITCO Insurance Companies](https://oldrepublic.com/blog/author/bitco-insurance-companies) | 07/183/2025

Lightning strikes can be dangerous, even when a storm is several miles away. A phenomenon called "bolt from the blue" refers to lightning that strikes well outside a thunderstorm, up to ten miles away. If you can hear thunder, you're within striking distance of a potential lightning strike, even if the storm seems far away.

 

According to the National Weather Service, lightning is the second leading cause of weather-related fatalities in the U.S., causing more deaths annually than hurricanes or tornadoes. Only floods result in more weather-related deaths each year.

While lightning strikes are often survivable, they can lead to serious injury. Approximately 90% of those struck survive, but may experience memory loss, chronic pain, sleep disturbances, and neurological impairments. These long-term effects can be both painful and permanently disabling.

Statistically, lightning strike victims are most likely to be:

- Struck during the months of June, July, or August
- Male
- Struck between 2:00 P.M. and 6:00 P.M.

 

[Read full post](https://blog.bitco.com/when-lightning-strikes-protecting-your-workers)

 

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