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Roadbuilding

Texas DOT worker awarded for saving life of man stuck in his truck during flood

A Texas Department of Transportation worker was honored with the department’s Extra Mile Award recently for his heroics on the job when he halted work to save the life of a man during record floods earlier this year. May 21 was already an abnormal day for maintenance officer Craig Hosts, according to a report from News […]

October 28, 2015

Safety

Retaining wall collapse kills worker near San Diego

A retaining wall collapse claimed the life of a construction worker earlier this month near San Diego. According to reports from Fox 5, 56-year-old Kenneth Schultz was killed while compacting dirt in a drainage channel at the site for a future FedEx distribution center in Oceanside the morning of October 13. As Schultz worked, a […]

October 27, 2015

Safety

Worker killed while remote control steering rear dolly in concrete beam transport

A construction worker in Florida was killed recently in an accident that occurred as crews were moving heavy concrete beams down an Interstate entrance ramp. According to a report from the Naples News, on October 5, crews were assisting three tractor trailers, each hauling 94-ton concrete beams, as they moved to a highway work zone on […]

October 19, 2015

Safety

Worker saved by co-workers from 2nd jobsite cardiac arrest shows importance of CPR training

A 55-year-old construction worker who has twice gone into sudden cardiac arrest while on the job was saved both times by co-workers with CPR training. According to Colorado’s 9 News, the first episode occurred in August 2012, when the man, who asked that he not be identified, collapsed and was found by co-workers unresponsive and […]

October 13, 2015

Roadbuilding

Illinois DOT workers rescue bald eagle injured along I-55

If not for a crew of road workers, one of America’s most iconic symbols could have been left for dead on the side of an Illinois interstate. ABC 7 in Chicago reported that an Illinois Department of Transportation crew was working along Interstate 55 in Darien when they saw what they thought was a blown out tire […]

October 5, 2015

Roadbuilding

Massachusetts highway worker saves stranded snapping turtle

Most highway workers might have more experience with hardhats than with hard shells, but that didn’t stop one Massachusetts man from halting his work to save a stranded snapping turtle. According to the Lowell Sun, Fred Baker was simply going about his day as a heavy equipment operator for the Billerica Highway Department when he […]

September 24, 2015

Roadbuilding

Second Caltrans worker killed by suspected drunk driver in less than a week

Just six days after a California Department of Transportation contractor was killed by a likely impaired driver near San Diego, another worker has died under similar circumstances in Oakland. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Caltrans worker Miguel Delacruz was working on a paving project Saturday on Interstate 580 when a vehicle drove through a […]

September 22, 2015

Roadbuilding

Caltrans worker dies after being hit by suspected impaired driver

A California Department of Transportation worker died Monday afternoon after he was struck by an SUV being driven by a man suspected of being under the influence of drugs. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that the man was making repairs sprinklers on Interstate 15 near Escondido, California, when an SUV attempting to get into the southbound lanes of the Interstate […]

September 18, 2015

Roadbuilding

Wisconsin sheriff calls for legislation against driving with pets following highway worker’s death

A Wisconsin highway worker was killed in May after he was hit by a vehicle driven by an inattentive driver. But the driver wasn’t texting or drunk, he had a dog in his lap and another on his shoulder. WBAY reported that Derek Stempa was working as a flagger during a county highway project when […]

September 10, 2015

Safety

Worker killed by 40-foot fall onto equipment in California

A worker in California was killed last week in a fall from scaffolding. According to a report from the Orange County Register, 29-year-old Elman Cano Cerranza was working as part of a crew building an apartment complex in Fullerton when he fell 40 feet from scaffolding the morning of August 24. Cerranza fell on top of a piece of […]

September 1, 2015

Safety

Worker dies after fall from 60 feet in Wisconsin

A construction worker was killed last week after suffering a high fall on a Wisconsin jobsite. According to a report from WKOW TV, 25-year-old Christopher Lord fell from a height of about 60 feet on the morning of August 17. The Wisconsin State Journal reports Lord was working as a framer at the site where an apartment […]

August 26, 2015

Roadbuilding

Construction worker pulls man from burning vehicle after Illinois work zone crash

An Illinois Tollway construction worker is being touted as a hero after pulling a man from a burning vehicle on Friday. According to the Elgin Courier-News, a box truck on Interstate 90 slammed into the back of a vehicle stopped in traffic and caused a three-vehicle crash inside a construction zone at about 4 a.m. near Hampshire. […]

August 25, 2015