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Construction Equipment

Crane drops 4-ton HVAC unit 30 stories to street below, injuring 10 in NYC

With the roar of a freight train and the “boom” of a bomb, an HVAC unit fell from the sky on Madison Avenue in New York City Sunday morning as it was being lifted into a 30-story building. According to a report from the New York Post, the 4-ton unit dropped after a rigging strap snapped, […]

June 1, 2015

Workforce

Crew unearths remains likely belonging to a construction worker on North Dakota jobsite

A crew working in west-central North Dakota recently uncovered human remains police believe may belong to another construction worker. According to a report from The Dickinson Press, an excavation crew there discovered the body while working at a jobsite near an industrial park on the evening of May 21. The Dickinson Police Department told the […]

May 29, 2015

Business

Contractor busted for using his construction company’s office to grow pot in Massachusetts

Police in Maryland arrested the owner of a Bellingham construction company earlier this week after discovering the man was using his office to grow a large amount of marijuana. According to a report from WCVB TV, police seized 36 marijuana plants from Attorney General Construction. The owner, 51-year-old Arcadio Gonzales, was later arrested and charged with cultivating […]

May 14, 2015

Workforce

Workers uncover ancient human remains, artifacts on Washington jobsite

While digging on a renovation job at an RV lot in Yakima, Washington, last week, a construction crew uncovered what could be some of the oldest Native American artifacts found in a region first inhabited by tribes of the Yakama Nation. According to a report from NBC Right Now, one of the workers had begun hand-digging with about […]

May 12, 2015

Workforce

Construction worker saves boy from dog mauling in Michigan

Thanks to the actions of a construction worker working nearby, a boy in Michigan is safe and recovering from an attack by four dogs. According to a report from The Morning Sun, 8-year-old Ethan Nokes was visiting his step-grandmother in Seveille Township last week when he ventured into her home’s backyard with her four Rottweilers whom he […]

May 11, 2015

Workforce

Construction crew finds body while excavating site near Detroit

A construction crew working a site in a rural Michigan town near Detroit discovered a body last week. According to a report from WDIV TV, the workers were doing excavation work at a site in Carleton being prepped for the construction of a home. The workers discovered the body in a wooded area near train […]

April 28, 2015

Workforce

Discovered on Instagram, construction worker leaps from jobsite to runway in new career as a model

It’s not very often we realize just how far-reaching the Internet is. Matthew Noszka certainly wasn’t thinking about it when he posted a picture of himself to his Instagram taken while working on building a deck. But thanks to that picture, he’s now a highly-sought-after fashion model. According to ABC News, Noszka, 22, posted the […]

April 23, 2015

Workforce

Crew saves co-worker’s life using CPR on Missouri construction site

When Curtis Todd’s co-workers saw him lying flat on the ground as the crew worked on a residential jobsite in Columbia, Missouri, they thought he had simply slipped when hooking a chute to the back of a concrete truck. Co-worker Bill Parsons said the crew even joked about it. That was before they saw the blood. […]

April 22, 2015

Roadbuilding

Troopers go undercover from construction vehicles in speeding crackdown on Pennsylvania work zones

Troopers with the Pennsylvania State Police will take an embedded approach in protecting construction workers in highway work zones this summer. In partnership with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission’s (PTC) campaign “Operation Orange Squeeze,” troopers will be working inside construction vehicles on highway jobsites running radar. They’ll relay speeders to other other troopers waiting outside the work […]

April 21, 2015

Workforce

Construction worker pulls man from SUV dangling from cliff after crash in Idaho

A construction worker came to another man’s rescue earlier this week in Idaho following an automobile accident that came inches from turning deadly. According to NBC News, Jason Warnock, a 29-year-old construction worker, was driving Bryden Canyon Road in Lewiston Wednesday morning when he saw a log in the road. Warnock looked up the roughly 30-foot […]

April 17, 2015

Business

Thief disguises himself as a worker, steals $10k in equipment from LA construction site

A thief’s brazen plan to rip off a construction site in Beverly Hills nearly went off without a hitch. One problem: the entire heist was caught on tape. According to a report from KABC TV, a man adorned some work clothes and slid on a safety vest before walking onto a jobsite at the Beverly […]

April 17, 2015

Roadbuilding

Barrier rolls from overpass during construction, kills young couple, infant son in Washington

A construction project to install a sidewalk along an overpass in Washington turned tragic Monday morning when a piece of the span fell atop a pickup traveling beneath. According to a report from the Seattle Times, Josh and Vanessa Ellis and their 8-month-old son Hudson were inside the truck and killed in the accident, which […]

April 15, 2015