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Worker killed after falling into water-filled pit at Ohio bridge construction site
A construction worker was killed last week in a strange and tragic accident at a bridge construction site near Proctorville, Ohio. The Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office tells WSAZ TV 45-year-old worker Bradley D. Jenkins, of Otway, Ohio, was “working on a drill bit” near the foot of the bridge when the ground slipped beneath him causing him […]
May 2, 2014
Safety
OSHA offers range of fall prevention resources in upcoming National Safety Stand-Down
While Equipment World covers a range of topics in our online and print safety articles, one area I like to make sure I write about regularly is fall prevention. The reason is simple. Although falls are one of the most preventable types of accidents, they’re also the number one cause of fatalities in construction; accounting […]
April 23, 2014
Safety
Construction worker dies after 10-story fall from NYC roof
A construction worker died Monday afternoon after falling 10 stories in New York City. The man was working on the roof of an office building in midtown Manhattan before falling and landing on scaffolding 25 feet above the sidewalk, according to a report from the Assoicated Press via NBC New York. The cause of the […]
April 15, 2014
Safety
Construction worker’s harrowing rescue from massive fire in Houston caught on tape
A $50 million luxury apartment complex under construction in Houston was reduced to ashes Tuesday afternoon by a five-alarm fire that raged for nearly two and-a-half hours. There were 90 construction workers in the building when the fire started and all were evacuated safety and without injury. However, there was an extremely close call when […]
March 26, 2014
Construction Equipment
Helicopter rescues stranded crane operator high above a raging inferno
A student housing complex under construction in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, caught fire Tuesday afternoon, stranding a crane operator high above the inferno below. Around 2 p.m. Tuesday, explosions were heard at the site, according to the CBC. Thought to be the sound of propane tanks exploding, the resulting blaze engulfed the under-construction housing complex and […]
December 18, 2013
Safety
Excavator operator survives after being speared in head by steel pole
Exposed rebar on a jobsite near Sydney, Austrailia pierced the floor of an excavator cabin and speared the operator in the head last week. And somehow, he survived. According to a report from the Sydney Morning Herald, the pole came up through the floor of the excavator before it “curved around and struck him in […]
August 19, 2013
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