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Roadbuilding

ARTBA offering scholarships to children of highway workers killed or disabled on the job

The American Road and Transportation Builders Association’s Transportation Development Foundation is once again offering scholarships to the children of highway workers who were killed or permanently injured while doing road work. ARTBA announced earlier this month it was seeking applications from qualified high school students for the 2016/2017 Lanford Family Highway Worker Memorial Scholarship Program. The scholarship […]

February 18, 2016

Roadbuilding

Michigan road worker killed after being struck by semi while placing signs

A Michigan road worker was killed and another was injured this week after they were struck and killed by a semi-truck in Wexford County. WPBN/WGTU reported that Sean Jordan was outside of his parked utility truck finishing up installing a highway sign on U.S. Highway 131 with his coworker Daniel Moomwa at around 5 p.m. when the […]

February 10, 2016

Roadbuilding

Minnesota road worker killed after being struck by SUV while clearing snow from road

A Minnesota worker died days after being struck by a vehicle while he was clearing snow from a road in Bloomington. According to KMSP, Bloomington Public Works Dept. employee Tyler Lenort was taken off of life support on Saturday and died soon after, two days removed from being hit by an SUV. Lenort had been clearing up snow near […]

February 2, 2016

Roadbuilding

Project engineer struck and killed by dump truck after just 2 days on the job

A 26-year-old project engineer in Texas was only on the job for two days before he was hit and killed by a dump truck Tuesday. KHOU reported that the man had recently started working with OHL Construction as an engineer. The man was walking back from lunch with some of his fellow engineers at about 12:30 p.m. […]

January 29, 2016

Workforce

Carpenter’s twirling hammer tricks make us wish we had more free time

A worker and his hammer. Is there any relationship more pure? This video is a couple years old but just recently started being passed around the web at a serious click. Looks like they were doing some kind of endorsement of Stiletto, a pricey but apparently “well balanced,” brand of hammer. The guy has obviously […]

January 25, 2016

Technology

AI, robotics expected to claim nearly 500,000 construction jobs by 2020

An estimated 5.1 million jobs are expected to be lost in the next five years due to advances in technology, specifically those in artificial intelligence, machine-learning, 3D printing and robotics, according to a report from the World Economic Forum. Of those job losses, construction and extraction are anticipated to account for nearly 10 percent. The […]

January 25, 2016

Roadbuilding

Work zone flagger killed after being struck by a vehicle in New Hampshire

A died Friday shortly after a vehicle struck him in a New Hampshire construction zone near Fitzwilliam. According to the Keene Sentinel, the flagger was working at a construction zone on Route 12 as crews did work on high-tension power lines early Friday morning. There was snow on the road when the vehicle struck the driver. Police responded to the […]

January 25, 2016

Workforce

Construction worker’s $2 million Powerball prize a fortunate accident

A New Mexico construction worker says he nearly walked away from the ticket that has made him $2 million richer following the Jan. 6 Powerball drawing. According to a report from KOAT TV, Jose Sarabia hails from Texas but works in Loving, New Mexico. Deciding to buy a Powerball ticket, he stopped into a Chevron […]

January 14, 2016

Workforce

Houston construction crew robbed at gunpoint twice in one week

A construction crew in Houston recently told KHOU TV that they “feared for their lives,” after being robbed at gunpoint on two separate occasions within the span of one week. The first took place Nov. 22 when Jose Alfredo Gonzalez and several other workers were robbed by four men who “ran out of a grassy area” near […]

January 7, 2016

Safety

Worker survives being hit, pinned by 600-pound chunk of concrete

A construction worker was fortunate to survive a scary accident during a remodeling job in Massachusetts last month. According to a report from The Enterprise, the unidentified 36-year-old worker was atop a scissor lift the morning of Dec. 22 helping to dismantle a concrete block wall from above a garage door when a chunk of the wall […]

January 4, 2016

Workforce

Worker loses his mind, fires nail gun, slashes tires in jobsite altercation with co-worker

A confrontation between two construction workers on a Hawaii jobsite last month proves that not everything on the Big Island is chill. According to a recent press release from the Hawaii Police Department, 23-year-old Cody Lewis Allen and a co-worker got into an altercation while at work in Kailua-Kona the morning of Nov. 2. The disagreement quickly […]

December 18, 2015

Workforce

Worker survives being impaled through chest by rebar

The witnesses and others who helped save Casey Zawojski’s life after a terrifying accident on a Florida jobsite are crediting divine intervention, and it’s easy to see why. According to a report from the Ocala Star-Banner, Zawojski, a 20-year-old painter, was doing prep work from a ladder at a residential jobsite when the ladder fell. […]

November 25, 2015