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Safety

Gear Keeper retractable lanyards tether your tools to you for safety and convenience

It’s a bummer when you are high up on a beam or roof and your tape measure falls to the ground. It’s a lot more of a bummer when it hits somebody. Gear Keeper’s TL-1 3015 integrated elastic webbing has a short (33-inch) retraction length and a long extension (51 inches) so it doesn’t get […]

March 2, 2015

Safety

OSHA rejects Arizona’s fall safety standards

The 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, 2015

Safety

Worker killed in equipment accident near Milwaukee

A 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, 2015

Safety

Worker killed by falling telehandler attachment in Minnesota

While 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, 2015

Safety

Worker crushed by 4 steel beams in unloading accident in New York City

As a crew unloaded steel joists from a truck at a Brooklyn jobsite Tuesday afternoon, four of the beams toppled off the truck and fell on top of a worker, killing him. According to reports from the New York Daily News, CBS New York and NY1, crews were working on the installation of a “green roof” […]

February 24, 2015

Workforce

OSHA extends annual fall prevention Safety Stand-Down to 2 weeks, announces 2015 dates

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has announced the dates of its second annual Safety Stand-Down for construction fall prevention. Citing widespread participation in last year’s event, OSHA has increased the stand-down from one week to two, setting the dates for May 4-15. During the two-week period, employers and workers pause during the workday to discuss safety topics […]

February 22, 2015

Safety

Worker killed in wall collapse on Wisconsin jobsite

A construction worker in Madison, Wisconsin, was killed Friday morning after a wall collapsed on top of him. According to a report from the Wisconsin State Journal, 58-year-old John Stoll was working at a construction site for a new apartment building when a wall collapsed on top of him and trapped him. Madison Fire Department officials told the […]

February 22, 2015

Safety

Cold weather makes you dumb and that’s a serious safety concern for people who work in construction

Every year about this time we’re bombarded with advice about how to dress warm—layers and all that. Articles about avoiding cold weather injuries abound. Most of us chairborne rangers can simply stay indoors when the temps fall, but if you work in construction, often you can’t. And that’s why everybody in this industry needs to […]

February 19, 2015

Safety

Crane operator killed by falling steel beam in Oregon

A crane operator in Portland, Oregon, was killed earlier this week when a steel beam fell on top of his machine’s cab. According to a report from The Oregonian, Christopher Pierson, 40, was aiding the construction of a retaining wall. Pierson was lifting a steel beam by its end when the beam “detached and sliced into the cab,” […]

February 19, 2015

Safety

Worker rescued from 20-foot trench after being buried chest deep in concrete in San Antonio

A construction worker in San Antonio survived a brush with death Monday night after he became buried chest deep in a mixture of concrete and sand. According to a report from KENS 5 TV, the man and a co-worker were filling a 20-foot trench with flowable fill Monday evening as part of the installation of […]

February 17, 2015

Safety

Construction worker killed in Alabama work zone crash

A construction worker in southwest Alabama was killed Friday morning in a work zone crash. According to a report from the Associated Press, 25-year-old worker Marshall James Walton was killed when a pickup truck crashed into the trailer he was working on south of Citronelle near Mobile. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency officials did not give […]

February 15, 2015

Safety

Worker survives 30-foot fall, is rescued in special extraction by Colorado firefighters

A team of firefighters in northern Colorado engineered a “technical rescue” after a construction worker survived a 30-foot fall earlier this week. According to a report from the Denver Post, the worker fell around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday morning at a building jobsite in Greeley. When firefighters responded to the scene they found the man in […]

February 12, 2015