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Safety

Breaking down the AGC’s construction safety report: Age, region, trade and even time of day are major factors

The Associated General Contractors of America released a comprehensive study of accidents in the construction industry Tuesday. The 30-page report, Preventing Fatalities in the Construction Industry, is available as a free PDF download at the link below and is well worth your time to read and analyze if you are a construction company owner, supervisor […]

April 7, 2017

Safety

Mini excavator falls into trench, pins worker inside on Md. jobsite

A construction worker in Maryland’s Montgomery County was rescued from a trench Saturday after a mini excavator fell into the trench, trapping him. According to a report from WJLA TV, the man was working inside of an L-shaped trench inside a commercial building when the machine toppled over. In order to free the man, Montgomery Country […]

August 29, 2016

Roadbuilding

USDOL launches tech competition to improve worker hearing safety

The U.S. Department of Labor recently launched the “Hear and Now – Noise Safety Challenge,” a competition that it hopes will encourage investors and entrepreneurs to develop a technological solution to hearing-related workplace noise hazards, EHS Today reports. The competition, a partnership between the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and […]

August 5, 2016

Roadbuilding

Steel a lighter, bend-not-break alternative to concrete work zone barriers

At nearly four times the cost, steel barriers are nowhere near as prevalent as the traditional concrete barrier seen protecting construction zones along the majority of roadways across the country. But according to a report from KOAA TV in Colorado, one distributor of these steel barriers is confident they are “the future of the barrier.” John […]

June 27, 2016

Roadbuilding

Florida road construction worker killed by sweeper truck

On Friday, May 13, a 69-year-old road construction worker was killed when he was run over by a sweeper truck on a job site on Florida 207 in Hastings, The Florida Times-Union reports. The Florida Highway Patrol identified the victim as Everett Leslie Rolfe of Holly Hill. According to the report, the sweeper truck was cleaning the left lane after it […]

May 24, 2016

Safety

Construction No. 2 industry for hearing loss, study says

A study spanning a decade and incorporating hearing tests of more than 1.4 million American workers found that construction accounted for the second-highest prevalence of workers with a hearing impairment. Conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the “Hearing Impairment Among Noise-Exposed Workers” study estimated the prevalence of hearing loss at six levels […]

May 17, 2016

Roadbuilding

AGC and NSSGA respond to OSHA’s revised silica exposure rule

On March 24, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez issued the final workplace exposure standard for crystalline silica, which will soon be published by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The new standard cuts the current permissible exposure limit (PEL) in half, reducing the exposure limit from 100 micrograms per cubic meter of air […]

April 1, 2016

Safety

Construction worker survives being hit by car that “flew” off Tenn. highway

A man performing work inside a Highway 27 work zone in Tennessee is lucky to be alive after being hit by a car an eyewitness says entered the jobsite airborne. According to a report from WRCB TV, Sharon Wilkins had taken a break from work to “get some fresh air,” when she witnessed a Nissan Maxima […]

March 25, 2016

Roadbuilding

Road worker killed following dump truck electrocution in S. Carolina

A road worker in South Carolina died after he was electrocuted while loading asphalt into a paver. According to The State, Javier Lopez-Lira was working with a crew on Shadow Wood Drive in Richland County when the incident occurred. Lopez-Lira was loading asphalt into the paving machine from a dump truck when the bed of […]

March 16, 2016

Roadbuilding

Project engineer struck and killed by dump truck after just 2 days on the job

A 26-year-old project engineer in Texas was only on the job for two days before he was hit and killed by a dump truck Tuesday. KHOU reported that the man had recently started working with OHL Construction as an engineer. The man was walking back from lunch with some of his fellow engineers at about 12:30 p.m. […]

January 29, 2016

Safety

Contractor killed when wall previously investiagated by OSHA collapses at Ford plant in Chicago

A contractor was killed and an automotive worker was seriously injured when a wall collapsed at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant over the weekend. According to NBC Chicago, 45-year-old John J. Jaloway was killed Saturday morning in the 8-foot by 8-foot-wall’s collapse. An unidentified 48-year-old Ford plant worker who went to help Jaloway was critically injured […]

January 6, 2016

Safety

Safety Week Lesson 6: 3 quick safety breaks each day ups awareness, slashes incidents

Although there were no injuries, excessive equipment damage and rising safety incidents had begun to take away from the bottom line at AECOM’s Black Thunder Mine in Wright, Wyoming. Management convened a group to investigate the incidents and when they did, one fact stood out prominently, says John DePoorter, equipment manager. Almost all the incidents […]

January 4, 2016