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Construction worker throws co-worker off bridge, disappears after jumping in river after him
Police in Charleston, South Carolina, are searching for a construction worker accused of throwing his co-worker off a bridge. Joshua D. Brown, 19, told police he was playing a game on his smartphone and eating some beef jerky when, out of nowhere, McCoy Wright, 30, came up behind him, picked him up and threw him [ā¦]
October 15, 2014
Business
Construction of Mormon temple in Philadelphia bans workers from smoking, having caffeine and swearing
Smoking and swearing are two things commonly restricted from most workplaces, though most have areas for employees to have a smoke break and swearing almost assuredly happens anywhere at any time despite being against the rules. But caffeine? The coffee pot and soda machine are workplace institutions no matter where you might work. What employer [ā¦]
December 4, 2013
Construction Equipment
Very stuck dump truck proves to be a challenging rescue for this excavator
We have conflicting thoughts about this video. On one hand, we couldnāt help but root for the operator of the excavator. After all, according to the videoās description, heās the one who got this Volvo A30 stuck in the first place and apparently no one on site was willing to give him a hand getting [ā¦]
November 27, 2013
Business
San Francisco subway construction causes a rat invasion
Itās not uncommon for a city to receive complaints about construction. Despite the knowledge that improvements are being made to infrastructure or a new building is join up, traffic backups and noise due to construction can quickly become annoyances after even a short period of time. But for San Francisco residents, itās the rats. According [ā¦]
November 17, 2013
Construction Equipment
Backhoe operator discovers rare 35-foot dinosaur fossil
After all the interesting bones and artifacts discovered on jobsites this year alone, weāre beginning to wonder what archaeologists would do without construction crews. The latest addition to the list is rare type of dinosaur fossil find. While clearing a site for the installation of an oil pipeline in Spirit River, Alberta, Canada, a backhoe [ā¦]
October 9, 2013
Workforce
What are your favorite sights, smells and sounds of the construction jobsite?
āSounds of progress and achievement.ā Thatās how Lou Marraffinoāwhile working Philadelphia-based Urban Engineersā reconstruction of Interstate 95ādescribed his favorite sounds of the construction jobsite. Recently, UE spent some time asking its workers on various jobsites around Pennsylvania what their favorite sights, smells and sounds on are. The answers vary widely. Some are thoughtful and insightful [ā¦]
September 19, 2013
Construction Equipment
Graveyard found beneath construction site of high school football stadium
Well, this certainly brings a whole new meaning to booing at a football game. Come 2016, the football team of one Virginia high school will call the site of a pre-Civil War graveyard their home turf. According to WTOP.com, the Prince William County school system has begun preparing the site of a new high school [ā¦]
September 4, 2013
Construction Equipment
Construction worker punches bank robber into a jail cell
If it wasnāt bad enough that alleged bank robber Frazer Piccolo was literally caught red-handed, his capture was assisted by a construction worker with a mean right hook. According to a report from KPTV in Portland, Oregon, the 44-year-old Piccolo entered the Bank of the West on Division St., at 10:45 a.m. Monday before passing [ā¦]
August 21, 2013
Construction Equipment
Sinkhole swallows backhoe in Montreal
A sinkhole measuring 26 long and 10 feet deep swallowed a backhoe performing sewer repairs in downtown Montreal last week. The driver of the backhoe was not injured, according to a report from the CBC. The cause of the street collapse is thought to be the faulty sewer pipe the crew at the site had [ā¦]
August 13, 2013
Business
Polish construction workers uncover a āvampire graveā from the Middle Ages (PHOTO)
We love sharing interesting stories from the jobsite, but this one, by far, is the weirdest one weāve seen yet. While working on a site near the town ofĀ Gliwice, Poland, construction workers unearthed multiple skeletons whose heads had been placed between their legsāan indication that these were people executed as vampires, according to the Telegraph. [ā¦]
July 15, 2013
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Bees on backhoe a buzzkill at Toronto construction site
Construction workers at Torontoās Union Station experienced an odd disruption Wednesday when a colony of urban honey bees swarmed their jobsite, according to The Toronto Star. Thousands of bees swarmed the site, where a revitalization of the century-old Toronto subway station is underway, before settling on a backhoe. Toronto Transit Commission spokesman Brad Ross said [ā¦]
June 27, 2013
Safety
Workers return to Washington state jobsite after discovery of radioactive soil
Though likely somewhat reluctant, workers returned to a jobsite in Richland, Washington Thursday after radioactive soil was found there. According to the Associated Press, the radioactive soil was found, strangely, under a birdās nest at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Work was halted on a waste treatment plant being built there. Upon discovering the radioactive soil, [ā¦]
June 7, 2013
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