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Construction crew finds body while excavating site near Detroit

A construction crew working a site in a rural Michigan town near Detroit discovered a body last week. According to a report from WDIV TV, the workers were doing excavation work at a site in Carleton being prepped for the construction of a home. The workers discovered the body in a wooded area near train […]

April 28, 2015

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Worker finds noose on Connecticut hospital construction site

Police in Connecticut are investigating the discovery of a noose on a construction site as a possible hate crime. According to a report from the Associated Press, a worker with Turner Construction found a noose on a jobsite for the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington Wednesday. Work on the site was stopped for […]

April 6, 2015

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Skull found on Louisville construction site sparks search for more remains

Work has slowed on a Louisville, Kentucky, jobsite where construction workers recently gained a bit more company as police and volunteers are combing the area after a skull was found on the jobsite early last week. According to a report from WHAS TV, workers excavating a site for a Habitat for Humanity neighborhood found the skull March […]

March 16, 2015

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Workers discover woman’s body on Florida jobsite

Early Friday morning on a jobsite in Satellite Beach, Florida, construction workers found the body of a young woman. According to a report from FOX 35 TV, the workers had just arrived to start their shift when they discovered the woman. Police secured the site after gaining a search warrant. Officials identified the woman as 24-year-old […]

February 23, 2015

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Construction crew unearths grenade without a pin, worker picks it up for some reason

A jobsite supervisor in Arizona got quite the scare last week when one of the guys on his crew walked up to him holding what appeared to be a live grenade. According to a report from WSEE TV, a crew with Sonoran Desert Ridge Development was trenching the front yard of a home in Scottsdale when […]

December 18, 2014

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Construction crew wrangles 11-foot python on Florida jobsite

We can all only hope that when confronted by a massive snake we handle the encounter as well as this construction crew near Miami. According to a report from WFLX TV, the workers, which look to be part of a road construction crew working near Florida State Road 826, found an 11-foot Burmese python inside […]

October 30, 2014

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Construction crew uncovers human bones during gas line install in New York City

A construction crew in New York City made a pretty startling discovery last week when a routine trench dig uncovered human bones. According to the New York Daily News, the crew discovered the bones while digging a trench for a gas main in the borough of Queens on the morning of October 7. Work was […]

October 14, 2014

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Construction worker finds hidden message from grandfather he never met on Ohio hospital jobsite

A current runs through the Schneider family blood. The past three generations of the Zanesville, Ohio family has included at least one electrician, the latest being 24-year-old Hugo Schneider. In addition to having the same profession as his grandfather, Schneider was also named after him and even lives in his former home. Unfortunately, he was […]

October 6, 2014

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California dam construction unearths collection of 20 million-year-old fossils

Since construction began in 2011 on the new dam for the Calaveras Reservoir near Malpitas, California, construction crews and paleontologists have unearthed an impressive collection of fossils dating as far back as 20 million years. Paleontologist Jim Walker tells the San Jose Mercury News that the collection of fossils give scientists an idea of what […]

July 8, 2014

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Caveman campsite, tools uncovered by construction of U.S. Embassy in London

While monitoring the construction of the new U.S. Embassy in London, archaeologists have uncovered a prehistoric campsite. Estimating that the site is 11,750 years old, archaeologists with the Museum of London Archaeology discovered several patches of charred ground from campfires, animal bones, fish traps and stone tools, according to a report from LiveScience. The oldest artifact […]

June 5, 2014

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Ancient buildings and artifacts in Istanbul reportedly being destroyed by construction

In construction, one of the things many contractors make a concentrated effort at avoiding is destroying anything of historical value while building something new. In fact, many contractors are excited to unearth history, even if it does mean work can be delayed a few days. Browse through our “Jobsite Finds” posts and you get a […]

May 19, 2014

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Hotel construction unearths beer mugs, liquor bottles and a bar dating back to before the Revolutionary War

Archaeologists are excavating the construction site of a 22-story hotel on The Bowery in New York City, which has been occupied since the 1740s, in order to preserve any history that may be hiding in the soil. And recently they made a big discovery. According to a report from DNAInfo New York, Chrysalis Archaeology discovered hundreds […]

May 14, 2014