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Safety

When it’s a OSHA violation… and when it’s not

Take a look at the photo and see if you can name the OSHA trench safety violations. There’s a man in the trench – look closely, because you can barely see him. Then, there are the eight men surrounding the newly excavated hole, putting pressure on the excavation face. There’s no sloping, shielding or shoring—nothing […]

January 20, 2016

Roadbuilding

Contractor cited for violations that led to partial Pennsylvania bridge collapse

A contractor in Clarion, Pennsylvania, is being held accountable for the partial collapse of a bridge earlier this year that injured two workers. According to Penn Live, Francis J. Palo Inc. has been cited for serious violations in the form of a flawed engineering process that didn’t make sure the bridge could withstand the heavy […]

January 5, 2016

Safety

Dallas now requiring contractors to give workers heat breaks

The Dallas City Council last week passed a measure that requires contractors working in the city limits to give workers a 10-minute break every four hours, in efforts to better protect those working in the extreme Texas heat. According to The Texas Tribune, the council voted 10-5 to approve the measure and joins Austin as the […]

December 17, 2015

Safety

5 construction workers die from falls in 4-week span

Five workers have died from falls on construction projects around the U.S. in the last month. According to a report from NBC Los Angeles, a worker in the Westlake district of the city fell 28 feet to his death Nov. 17. LA West Media identified the worker as Oswaldo Mineros Jr., reporting that the 20-year-old fell […]

December 16, 2015

Safety

Worker dies following trench collapse in Michigan

A worker died due to injuries suffered in a trench collapse earlier this month on a Michigan jobsite. According to a report from The Macomb Daily, 47-year-old Alfredo Garcia was working inside a 6-foot-deep trench in Macomb Township when the walls collapsed on the morning of Nov. 11. The accident occurred four days before another worker was killed in a […]

December 1, 2015

Workforce

Massive scaffolding collapse injures 6 workers in Houston

Much less catastrophic scaffolding collapses than the one captured in the footage below have proven deadly. And yet the workers involved in this collapse, which occurred last month at a luxury apartment building under construction in Houston, escaped without a single death. Houston’s KTRK obtained eyewitness footage of the collapse which shows scaffolding across one […]

November 23, 2015

Workforce

Construction deaths up 10% in preliminary 2014 report; total leads all industries

Nearly 4,700 people were killed on the job in 2014, according to preliminary data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with the construction industry accounting for nearly one-fifth of those deaths. The number of construction workers killed on the job increased by 10 percent in 2014 to 874, once again making the industry accountable for […]

November 1, 2015

Safety

Falls claim the lives of 3 construction workers in one weekend

According to reports from across the U.S., three construction workers were killed in one weekend earlier this month, each of them in a fall. One of two deadly accidents on Oct. 17 occurred when a 53-year-old worker fell 50 feet while working inside a smokestack on the Yale University campus in New Haven, Connecticut. According to a […]

October 29, 2015

Roadbuilding

Snooper truck overturns on I-84 on-ramp, crushes bridge inspector in Connecticut

A bridge inspector for the Connecticut Department of Transportation died Wednesday after his snooper truck tipped over on an interstate on-ramp and crushed him. According to NBC Connecticut, William Shook was standing between the truck and the bridge railing as he retracted the truck’s arm and bucket when the truck began to tip. The 31-ton […]

August 28, 2015

Roadbuilding

One killed, one injured after wall collapses during road-widening project in Arizona

One worker was killed and another was critically injured August 21 in Arizona when a wall collapsed atop them during the demolition of a building for a Tucson road-widening project. The Arizona Daily Star is reporting that the two workers were standing against a 15-foot load-bearing wall while the building was being demolished with a back hoe for the project. The wall collapsed, […]

August 28, 2015

Safety

Trench collapse kills worker on gas station project in Texas

A worker on a crew building a new location for the Allsups chain of gas stations and convenience stores was killed in a trench collapse last week. According to a report from KFDA TV, 63-year-old Juan Castaneda was killed June 30 while installing fuel tanks in Fritch, Texas. The station reports the trench’s dirt walls […]

July 8, 2015

Safety

House subcommittee proposes funding cuts for OSHA and MSHA

An appropriations subcommittee in the House of Representatives has proposed cuts for both the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Mining Safety and Health Administration. The proposal to decrease funding came as the House Labor, Health and Human services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee shot down a proposal from President Barack Obama to boost the […]

July 2, 2015