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Death by Trench
2016-2017 Trench Collapse Fatalities: The victims
June 14, 2018
Workforce
Iron Workers stand atop LA in 1,100-foot viral photo of spire installation
A group of iron workers celebrating the completion of a spire installation at Los Angeles’s newest high rise has gone viral as people across the country shared a photo of the men standing at the spire’s tip top. According to a report from KTLA, on September 3, crews completed installation of a 294-foot, 9-inch spire […]
September 12, 2016
Workforce
Worker killed in 53-story fall from Los Angeles hotel under construction
A construction worker was killed last week in Los Angeles after suffering a fall from 53 stories. According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, 36-year-old Joseph Sabbatino, was in his second day on the job as an electrician at the Wilshire Grand, a $1.2-billion hotel and office building under construction, when he fell […]
March 21, 2016
Roadbuilding
L.A. is looking for an artist to help lower its number of traffic deaths
Sure, they say a picture is worth a thousand words, but Los Angeles is hoping art could be worth even more lives. L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti announced last week the city would begin accepting applicants for its first ever Creative Catalyst Artist in Residence—a program for artists to work together with city departments on “innovative ways […]
October 29, 2015
Business
Los Angeles at a tipping point: get serious about public transportation or sink into Third World status
Last week I got the opportunity to visit Southern California and see how the country’s most famous freeways were holding up. I pulled out of LAX in my rental car just after lunch, gunned it onto the 405 and then west on 101 and barely had to tap the brakes during four hours of high-speed […]
January 23, 2015
Construction Equipment
LA construction crew breaks world record for largest continuous concrete pour
A crew in Los Angeles poured 21,200 cubic yards of concrete without stopping over a period of 18-1/2 hours to break the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest continuous concrete pour. The crew building the New Wilshire Grand, a skyscraper that will reach 1,110 feet into the air once it’s complete, started the pour […]
February 20, 2014
Construction Equipment
Construction crew builds the world’s largest vinyl record in 10 days atop LA Forum
You’ve probably played, or at least seen, a 12-inch vinyl record. But what about a 4,884-inch vinyl record? That’s what is spinning atop the newly-renovated Forum in Los Angeles at this very second. Specifically, The Eagles 1977 hit album Hotel California. The 407-feet-in-diameter record spins at a speed of 17 miles per hour and weighs 25 […]
January 13, 2014
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