Wayne GraysonWayne Grayson is the former Executive Video Producer for Randall-Reilly; in previous positions, he served as the Executive Editor and Online Editor for Equipment World.SafetyOSHA rejects Arizona’s fall safety standardsThe U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has rejected fall safety standards crafted by the Arizona state legislature. Residential construction sites must now adhere to federal fall safety standards instead. According to a report from the Phoenix Business Journal, OSHA rejected the state’s own standards on February 6. The site reports the state set its own […]March 2, 2015WorkforceNashville construction sites saw 8 armed robberies in February aloneIn the wake of an armed robbery on a North Nashville jobsite last week, Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said that the city had seen a spree of construction site attacks as of late. Now, according to a report from WSMV TV, police have put an exact number on that February spree: eight. Brothers Jesus Belmontes, 26, and […]March 2, 2015SafetyWorker killed in equipment accident near MilwaukeeA construction worker part of a crew working on Milwaukee’s Zoo Interchange project along Interstate 94 was killed over the weekend. According to a report from WKOW TV, 33-year-old Ryan Calkins was killed in what the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office will only call an accident that “involved machinery,” around 8 a.m. Saturday. In WKOW’s report a […]March 2, 2015BusinessPHOTOS: Google to build greenhouse-like HQ defined by movable construction housed in see-through canopies[imagebrowser id=206] With construction of competitor Apple’s new spaceship-like Campus 2 well underway, Google has announced its own plans for a revamp to its headquarters in Mountain View, California. And while Apple’s project is of interest to construction professionals due to the sheer scale of the $5 billion project alone, Google’s is interesting in how […]March 2, 2015BusinessCNH Industrial to lay off more than 200 factory workers at Nebraska, North Dakota plantsCNH Industrial has confirmed indefinite layoffs at two plants in response to, “market conditions,” as the farm and construction equipment manufacturer continues to deal with a global agricultural slowdown. According to a report from KFGO AM, CNH will lay off 80 full-time workers at its Fargo, North Dakota, plant, while the Grand Island (Nebraska) Independent reports […]March 1, 2015BusinessNonresidential pulls down U.S. construction spending 1.1% in JanuaryU.S. construction spending fell 1.1 percent during January due to nonresidential construction decreases in both the public and private sectors. Overall spending fell to $971.4 billion, according to preliminary estimates from the Commerce Department. However, the figure remains up 1.8 percent over January 2014. Nonresidential spending fell 2 percent to $614.1 billion. Thirteen of the sector’s 16 markets saw […]March 1, 2015SafetyWorker killed by falling telehandler attachment in MinnesotaWhile working on a hotel jobsite in Minnesota, a worker was killed when an attachment from a telehandler suddenly fell on top of him. According to a report from KTTC TV, the 30-year-old unidentified worker was beneath the telehandler’s extended arm around 12:30 p.m. Friday when, “a very large attachment” fell from the machine. Authorities […]March 1, 2015WorkforceLegislation to recalculate prevailing construction wage passes in West VirginiaWhile Indiana appears to be on the way to repealing its common construction wage entirely, lawmakers in West Virginia have passed legislation that will recalculate how the wage is set. With a 56-39 vote, West Virginia’s House of Delegates passed Senate Bill 361, according to a report from WTRF TV. The bill will go back to […]March 1, 2015Construction EquipmentExcavator punches and crushes a Kia Soul to a slow, painful deathThis is an effectively therapeutic video. Now, I’m not sure what this poor Kia Soul did to incur this excavator operator’s wrath, but one thing is for sure: this is thorough destruction. After the first few punches of the machine’s bucket you think, “Well that was fun, but the car is flat so I guess he’s about […]February 27, 2015SafetyWorker survives NYC building collapse by riding wreckage to the groundA worker on the top floor of a New York City parking garage somehow survived Wednesday afternoon when a portion of the three-story structure collapsed beneath him. According to a report from CBS New York, the West 57th Street building was undergoing interior demolition when a 50-foot square portion of the garage came down. 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