Generative AI for Visualizing Highway Construction Hazards Through Synthetic Images and Temporal Sequences

arXiv:2605.11276v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Highway construction workers face a high risk of serious injury or death. Image-based training materials depicting hazardous scenarios are essential for engaging safety instruction but remain scarce due to ethical and logistical barriers. This study develops and evaluates a generative AI methodology for producing synthetic visualizations of highway construction hazards from OSHA Severe Injury Report narratives. Two modes were developed: a single-