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Safety: Page 27
Safety
Construction Safety Week: 6 lessons from the real world
Are your guys bored with safety talks? Do the topics seem stale, obvious or theoretical? Since it’s the end of the year we figure it’s the perfect time for reflection. Construction jobsites can be dangerous places. One poor decision or one overlooked piece of safety equipment can be the difference between life and death. In […]
December 28, 2015
Safety
Excavator operator killed after machine becomes submerged in pond on Houston jobsite
An excavator operator was killed on a jobsite near Houston last week when his machine sunk in a retention pond. According to a report from KTRK TV, the unidentified worker was operating the excavator when mud beneath the machine gave way, causing it to become submerged in 12 feet of water. As you can see […]
December 23, 2015
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Safety
Dallas now requiring contractors to give workers heat breaks
The Dallas City Council last week passed a measure that requires contractors working in the city limits to give workers a 10-minute break every four hours, in efforts to better protect those working in the extreme Texas heat. According to The Texas Tribune, the council voted 10-5 to approve the measure and joins Austin as the […]
December 17, 2015
Safety
2 men crushed to death in seperate heavy equipment accidents in Texas and Alaska
Heavy equipment accidents led to the deaths of two men in the last month. According to a report from KXAN TV, 24-year-old construction worker Armando Juarez was killed Nov. 18 while assisting with the installation of storm water drainage pipes in Manor, Texas. Juarez was killed when an excavator bucket fell on top of him […]
December 17, 2015
Safety
5 construction workers die from falls in 4-week span
Five workers have died from falls on construction projects around the U.S. in the last month. According to a report from NBC Los Angeles, a worker in the Westlake district of the city fell 28 feet to his death Nov. 17. LA West Media identified the worker as Oswaldo Mineros Jr., reporting that the 20-year-old fell […]
December 16, 2015
Roadbuilding
Elderly man kills construction worker in hit and run
An elderly driver struck and killed a construction worker crossing the street then fled the scene in Texas earlier this month. According to KPRC, a construction worker in Houston was crossing Galveston Road on Dec. 3 when he was struck by a Lexus driving through an intersection. The 78-year-old driver then continued driving and left the […]
December 16, 2015
Safety
Dozer operator dies after being impaled by tree limb in Wisconsin
A bulldozer operator in Wisconsin was killed last month when he was impaled by a tree limb. According to a report from The Northwestern, 55-year-old Wayne N. Remer, was using the machine to move tree limbs from a field being cleared in Nepeuskun Nov. 11 when “one of the tree limbs entered the bulldozer’s cabin” and […]
December 15, 2015
Safety
Dozer operator survives being run over by his own machine on Florida jobsite
Just two weeks after another Florida man miraculously survived being impaled through the chest on a construction site, a bulldozer operator has survived being run over by his machine. According to a report from the Orlando Sentinel, 70-year-old Tullie R. Jones fell out of the dozer after driving over a mound of dirt on a jobsite […]
December 9, 2015
Safety
OSHA opens investigation after Missouri contractor fails to report roofer’s death
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration last month opened an investigation into an unreported fall that killed a worker on a Missouri jobsite. According to a report from the Leader, 36-year-old roofer Nathan Scott Hemmen died after he fell while installing roof trusses. Hemmen suffered a 10-foot fall onto a concrete floor Oct. 21 […]
December 8, 2015
Roadbuilding
Motor grader operator killed when machine is hit by train in Oklahoma
A worker for Nowata County in Oklahoma died Wednesday after the motor grader he was operating was hit by a train. The Tulsa World reported that 71-year-old Cleo Standefield was driving his machine from one worksite to another when a 43-car train barreled into the grader at 41 mph. Standefield was pronounced dead at the scene. It’s […]
December 4, 2015
Safety
Serial arsonist has torched at least 4 NYC construction sites
Police in New York City are investigating a string of fires at construction sites in the Queens borough that are believed to be the work of one arsonist. According to a report from the New York Post, the suspect is wanted for setting fires at at least four jobsites in Novemeber alone. Another two fires […]
December 2, 2015
Safety
Worker dies following trench collapse in Michigan
A worker died due to injuries suffered in a trench collapse earlier this month on a Michigan jobsite. According to a report from The Macomb Daily, 47-year-old Alfredo Garcia was working inside a 6-foot-deep trench in Macomb Township when the walls collapsed on the morning of Nov. 11. The accident occurred four days before another worker was killed in a […]
December 1, 2015
Safety
Trench collapse claims life of Wisconsin worker
A Wisconsin worker was killed in a trench collapse earlier this month in a tragic accident that occurred while working with his father. According to a report from WBAY TV, 46-year-old Scott Krepline had not been seen for about 30 minutes the afternoon of November 10 when the fire department was called to a jobsite […]
November 30, 2015
Safety
Smokestack collapse crushes excavator cab, somehow doesn’t kill operator
No. 3 Video of 2015 « No. 4 No. 2 »  An excavator operator in Alabama is lucky to be alive after the demolition of a smokestack at a historic mill went wrong earlier this week. According to a report from WIAT TV, demolition contractor Tim Phifer and his crew set off two explosive […]
November 26, 2015
Workforce
Worker survives being impaled through chest by rebar
The witnesses and others who helped save Casey Zawojski’s life after a terrifying accident on a Florida jobsite are crediting divine intervention, and it’s easy to see why. According to a report from the Ocala Star-Banner, Zawojski, a 20-year-old painter, was doing prep work from a ladder at a residential jobsite when the ladder fell. […]
November 25, 2015
Safety
Worker dies after suffering fall on residential jobsite near Chicago
A construction worker was killed earlier this month in a fall on a residential jobsite near Chicago. According to a report from the Chicago Tribune, the 68-year-old worker was working with a crew in Winnetka on a home when he fell about 12 feet before hitting a beam. The paper reports the man was “working on the […]
November 23, 2015
Workforce
Massive scaffolding collapse injures 6 workers in Houston
Much less catastrophic scaffolding collapses than the one captured in the footage below have proven deadly. And yet the workers involved in this collapse, which occurred last month at a luxury apartment building under construction in Houston, escaped without a single death. Houston’s KTRK obtained eyewitness footage of the collapse which shows scaffolding across one […]
November 23, 2015
Safety
Worker killed when Manhattan town home collapses during demolition
One worker was killed and another suffered serious injuries when a building partially collapsed as crews performed demolition work in Manhattan at the end of last month. According to a report from the Associated Press, 26-year-old Pedro Bacilio was killed when a portion of a five-story town house in Midtown collapsed Oct. 30. DNAInfo New […]
November 20, 2015
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