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Safety

Ironworker dies after fall at NYC mansion renovation

Following a fall from a ladder suffered while working on a major home renovation on New York City’s Upper East Side, a construction worker died from his injuries over the weekend. According to a report from the New York Post, the unidentified ironworker was, “installing a plate under a second-floor balcony,” when he fell from a […]

March 26, 2015

Roadbuilding

Silica/Asphalt Milling Machine Partnership officials release 2 new silica exposure control guides

Members of the Silica/Asphalt Milling Machine Partnership recognized the culmination of the group’s 10-year effort to improve worker safety with a ceremony during the World of Asphalt in Baltimore and releases of a best practices guide and a field guide. The partnership is made up of the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), the National Institute […]

March 26, 2015

Safety

Gravel truck on California jobsite overturns, kills pregnant woman in her driveway

In a tragic accident earlier this week, a pregnant woman asked by a construction crew to move her car was killed when a gravel truck overturned. According to reports from KPIX TV and the San Francisco Chronicle, 32-year-old Linsey Combs was asked to move her car farther away from a city sidewalk project around 1 […]

March 25, 2015

Safety

Three workers killed in mast climber collapse on North Carolina jobsite

Three construction workers were killed Monday morning when a mobile scaffolding platform ripped away from the side of an office building under construction in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. According to a report from the Raleigh News & Observer, workers were dismantling the mast climber when it collapsed. The paper reports one man was inside a portable toilet on […]

March 24, 2015

Safety

Worker dies after 11-foot fall in Arkansas

A construction worker was killed Tuesday afternoon in Little Rock, Arkansas, following a fall from only 11 feet. According to a report from Arkansas Online, 29-year-old Erik Rivera Pontilla fell from a beam he was bolting into place. The Little Rock Police Department told the site that Pontilla lost his footing and fell directly onto a slab below. No […]

March 18, 2015

Safety

Worker killed after being thrown from machine in North Carolina

Law enforcement and Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials are investigating the death of a construction worker on a jobsite in Rutherford County, North Carolina. According to a report from WLOS TV, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said Blake Luckadoo was killed on the job Friday morning. Luckadoo worked as an operator for Sisk Grading which […]

March 16, 2015

Roadbuilding

Worker dies after 60-foot fall from Seattle’s Highway 520 bridge replacement project

While working high above Lake Washington Thursday afternoon, a worker on Seattle’s Highway 520 bridge replacement project fell some 60 feet and died later from his injuries. According to a report from the Seattle Times, Washington State Department of Transportation spokesman Ian Sterling said the unidentified worker was positioned atop the new floating bridge’s east highrise […]

March 13, 2015

Roadbuilding

National Work Zone Awareness Week is March 23-27

“Expect the Unexpected” is the theme for this year’s National Work Zone Awareness Week, a campaign designed to promote safe driving through highway work zones and construction sites. First launched in 2000 by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA), and the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO), […]

March 10, 2015

Safety

Worker survives being impaled on rebar after 15-foot fall on Massachusetts jobsite

It took rescue workers and firefighters more than an hour to free a construction worker in southeast Massachusetts who had fallen onto rebar. According to a report from the Sippican Week, the worker is part of a crew building a new waste services complex in Rochester. The unidentified man fell 15 feet onto the section of […]

March 9, 2015

Safety

67-year-old worker survives 25-foot dive into pit and the piece of metal that fell on top of him

Anyone able to keep up with the rigors of construction work while closing in on 70 must be doing something right. And anyone able to do that and survive a two-story fall into a pit must really be doing something right. According to a report from The Oregonian, a 67-year-old construction worker working on an upgrade to a water […]

March 4, 2015

Safety

Construction worker survives being pinned against backhoe in Alabama work zone crash, loses leg

While doing utility work along the side of a road in Birmingham, Alabama, over the weekend, a construction worker was hit by an SUV and pinned against a backhoe. According to a report from AL.com, 48-year-old Bobby Joe Smith, known to friends as Rusty, was finishing up his Friday night shift with Benton Construction along Lane […]

March 3, 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