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Safety

Construction worker injured when head is pinned between lift and steel beam at Daytona International Speedway

A construction worker operating a scissor lift as part of the renovations taking place at the Daytona International Speedway suffered a head injury Saturday that could have been much worse. The unidentified 43-year-old worker was operating the lift about 94 feet in the air when his head was pressed between a steel beam and the […]

April 22, 2014

Safety

Collapse at Boston construction site injures 3 workers

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include the injury of a third worker in the accident. Two workers were hospitalized Thursday morning in Boston in the wake of a partial collapse of a 33-story residential building under construction. The workers’ injuries were said to be non-life threatening, but one of the workers did […]

March 20, 2014

Safety

Utah leads U.S. in decline of construction deaths, D.C. tops list of injury declines

Construction deaths declined at a faster rate in Utah between 2008 and 2011 than in any other state, according to new rankings from the Association of General Contractors of America. Derived from an analysis of federal safety data, the AGC’s ranking compared the number of construction deaths for each state with available data and Washington, D.C. in […]

May 21, 2013