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Workforce

OSHA extends annual fall prevention Safety Stand-Down to 2 weeks, announces 2015 dates

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has announced the dates of its second annual Safety Stand-Down for construction fall prevention. Citing widespread participation in last year’s event, OSHA has increased the stand-down from one week to two, setting the dates for May 4-15. During the two-week period, employers and workers pause during the workday to discuss safety topics […]

February 22, 2015

Safety

Worker killed in wall collapse on Wisconsin jobsite

A construction worker in Madison, Wisconsin, was killed Friday morning after a wall collapsed on top of him. According to a report from the Wisconsin State Journal, 58-year-old John Stoll was working at a construction site for a new apartment building when a wall collapsed on top of him and trapped him. Madison Fire Department officials told the […]

February 22, 2015

Safety

Crane operator killed by falling steel beam in Oregon

A crane operator in Portland, Oregon, was killed earlier this week when a steel beam fell on top of his machine’s cab. According to a report from The Oregonian, Christopher Pierson, 40, was aiding the construction of a retaining wall. Pierson was lifting a steel beam by its end when the beam “detached and sliced into the cab,” […]

February 19, 2015

Roadbuilding

Kokosing CEO admits demolition plan was flawed in deadly bridge collapse

The demolition plan for a bridge that crossed over Interstate 75 near Cincinnati was flawed and has been found to have contributed to the structure’s collapse which killed a worker last month. According to a report from the Cincinnati Enquirer, Brian Burgett, CEO of Kokosing Construction, the firm contracted by the Ohio Department of Transportation to […]

February 15, 2015

Safety

Construction worker killed in Alabama work zone crash

A construction worker in southwest Alabama was killed Friday morning in a work zone crash. According to a report from the Associated Press, 25-year-old worker Marshall James Walton was killed when a pickup truck crashed into the trailer he was working on south of Citronelle near Mobile. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency officials did not give […]

February 15, 2015

Safety

Worker survives 30-foot fall, is rescued in special extraction by Colorado firefighters

A team of firefighters in northern Colorado engineered a “technical rescue” after a construction worker survived a 30-foot fall earlier this week. According to a report from the Denver Post, the worker fell around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday morning at a building jobsite in Greeley. When firefighters responded to the scene they found the man in […]

February 12, 2015

Safety

Backhoe strikes and kills worker in Texas

A construction worker in Texarkana was killed Tuesday when he was struck by a backhoe. According to a report from the Texarkana Gazette, 61-year-old Jose Andrade was standing directly behind the backhoe in a work zone on Galleria Oaks Road. Police told the paper that the backhoe swung around and hit him, killing him instantly. Andrade was […]

February 5, 2015

Safety

Worker killed after lift pins him to roof beam in Illinois

A construction worker was killed in an odd accident in Wilmington, Illinois, last week when he was pinned to a roof beam. According to a report from The Hearld-News, the unidentified man was working atop a lift or aerial work platform Friday morning. The lift inexplicably extended, pinning him to a steel roof beam. The man’s co-workers brought the […]

February 4, 2015

Safety

Worker killed after piece of crane fell on top of him on Chicago jobsite

Construction workers on a jobsite in Chicago’s Gold Coast found a co-worker Friday afternoon that had become pinned by part of a crane. According to a report from WLS TV, the workers were able to free the man who was unresponsive when emergency personnel arrived to the site. Paramedics spent several minutes treating the […]

February 2, 2015

Safety

One worker dead, another injured after wall collapses into scissor lift in Texas

One construction worker is dead and another received minor injuries while doing demolition work atop a scissor lift in Midland, Texas. According to a report from the Midland Reporter-Telegram, the two men were standing atop the scissor lift demolishing a brick wall with sledgehammers Wednesday morning. Suddenly, the wall collapsed, knocking the scissor lift over and […]

January 30, 2015

Safety

Worker killed when pinned between tractor and dozer in Ohio

A man attempting to pull a piece of equipment out of deep mud in Bennington Township, Ohio, Saturday was killed when the stuck tractor suddenly lunged forward and pinned him between the tractor and a dozer. Sidney J. Donohue, 40, was between the pieces of equipment hooking up a chain so the tractor could be […]

January 28, 2015

Safety

Excavator operator survives nasty rollover off of Connecticut bridge

An excavator operator escaped a serious machine rollover while working alongside a bridge in Connecticut recently. According to a report from the Record-Journal, Tom Bryda, was operating the excavator January 14 when it rolled over and slid down an embankment, settling below the Columbs Avenue bridge in Meriden. A report from the Meriden Fire Department said Bryda suffered […]

January 26, 2015