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Roadbuilding
I-90 support beam collapse kills 1 worker, injures 3 in Chicago
One worker is dead and three others injured after a large beam fell from Interstate 90 in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines early Tuesday morning. According to a report from WLS TV, Illinois Tollway crews were in the process of removing beams from beneath a section of the highway over Touhy Avenue when the accident […]
April 5, 2016
Business
Construction adds 27,000 jobs in March
For 12 months now, the U.S. construction industry has not posted a loss in jobs. The industry added 27,000 jobs in the most recent tally for March, bringing the total number of Americans employed in construction to 6.672 million, according to preliminary data from the Labor Department. The latest data also revised February’s total, increasing it from […]
April 4, 2016
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Roadbuilding
AGC and NSSGA respond to OSHA’s revised silica exposure rule
On March 24, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez issued the final workplace exposure standard for crystalline silica, which will soon be published by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The new standard cuts the current permissible exposure limit (PEL) in half, reducing the exposure limit from 100 micrograms per cubic meter of air […]
April 1, 2016
Safety
Construction worker survives being hit by car that “flew” off Tenn. highway
A man performing work inside a Highway 27 work zone in Tennessee is lucky to be alive after being hit by a car an eyewitness says entered the jobsite airborne. According to a report from WRCB TV, Sharon Wilkins had taken a break from work to “get some fresh air,” when she witnessed a Nissan Maxima […]
March 25, 2016
Safety
Trailered backhoe overturns during haul, kills driver in California
A combination of unsafe driving and unpermitted heavy equipment hauling led to the death of a man near Sacramento, California, last month. According to The Sacramento Bee, Terry Cordell, of Newcastle, was driving along Highway 49 in a Ford F-350 hauling a trailered backhoe and traveling at an unsafe speed Feb. 18. The California Highway […]
March 23, 2016
Workforce
Worker killed in 53-story fall from Los Angeles hotel under construction
A construction worker was killed last week in Los Angeles after suffering a fall from 53 stories. According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, 36-year-old Joseph Sabbatino, was in his second day on the job as an electrician at the Wilshire Grand, a $1.2-billion hotel and office building under construction, when he fell […]
March 21, 2016
Roadbuilding
Road worker killed following dump truck electrocution in S. Carolina
A road worker in South Carolina died after he was electrocuted while loading asphalt into a paver. According to The State, Javier Lopez-Lira was working with a crew on Shadow Wood Drive in Richland County when the incident occurred. Lopez-Lira was loading asphalt into the paving machine from a dump truck when the bed of […]
March 16, 2016
Business
Construction adds 19,000 jobs in February
The U.S. construction industry continued a now 11-month-long streak of job gains in February with the addition of 19,000 jobs. The industry now employs 6.631 million Americans, according to preliminary data from the Labor Department. The latest data also revised January’s total, decreasing it from 6.615 million to 6.612 million, weakening that month’s job gains […]
March 7, 2016
Roadbuilding
Worker killed after being hit by dump truck on Florida’s I-4 Ultimate project
A highway worker in Florida died Feb. 23 after he was struck by a dump truck in the Interstate 4 construction zone. According to the Orlando Sentinel, SGL Constructors employee Marvin Franklin was working on the $2.3 billion project in Orlando and standing behind a parked dump truck filled with dirt. The dump truck was parked on the […]
March 1, 2016
Safety
Falls claim the lives of 3 construction workers in 3 week span
Three construction workers on separate sites in the northeastern U.S. were killed by falls in a three-week span between mid-January and early February with two of the incidents occurring on the same day. On Jan. 14, an unidentified construction worker was killed in Philadelphia after a fall into the Delaware River. Crews had been working […]
February 29, 2016
Roadbuilding
Cop working construction zone dragged by vehicle
A police officer working in a construction zone in Wayland, Massachusetts was injured recently after being dragged by a vehicle for several feet. According to the Boston Globe, Sgt. Jennifer Ordway was out of her vehicle in the construction zone on Route 30 when she started talking to the driver of a vehicle through the passenger window. The driver of […]
February 29, 2016
Safety
Five-ton generator falls from crane, killing 2 construction workers in New Jersey
Two construction workers were killed in a crane accident last week on a New Jersey jobsite when a large generator fell on top of them. According to a report from NJ.com, 25-year-old Joseph Donahue and another unidentified worker were killed while crews were installing the generator at a firehouse under construction in Hanover. A crane […]
February 25, 2016
Roadbuilding
Highway worker frees woman from vehicle overturned in icy Indiana creek
A highway worker in Indiana is being hailed a hero after he helped rescue a woman whose car overturned in a creek last week. According to the Banner Graphic, Putnam County Highway Department worker Greg Whitman was passing by a rural creek when he noticed an overturned sedan in the freezing waters. Just minutes before, 25-year-old Christy […]
February 16, 2016
Roadbuilding
Michigan road worker killed after being struck by semi while placing signs
A Michigan road worker was killed and another was injured this week after they were struck and killed by a semi-truck in Wexford County. WPBN/WGTU reported that Sean Jordan was outside of his parked utility truck finishing up installing a highway sign on U.S. Highway 131 with his coworker Daniel Moomwa at around 5 p.m. when the […]
February 10, 2016
Business
Construction adds 28,000 jobs in January
The U.S. construction industry continued its streak of employment gains in January, adding 28,000 jobs. The industry now employs 6.615 million Americans, the highest total since December 2008’s total of 6.701 million, according to preliminary data from the Labor Department. Construction employment has been on the rise for 10 straight months. The latest data also […]
February 8, 2016
Workforce
Carpenter’s twirling hammer tricks make us wish we had more free time
A worker and his hammer. Is there any relationship more pure? This video is a couple years old but just recently started being passed around the web at a serious click. Looks like they were doing some kind of endorsement of Stiletto, a pricey but apparently “well balanced,” brand of hammer. The guy has obviously […]
January 25, 2016
Workforce
SCE&G working with schools statewide to fill 1,000 construction positions for new reactors
South Carolina Energy & Gas (SCE&G) will hire 1,000 workers over the course of this year as part of a large, ongoing project for two new nuclear reactors. According to a report from the Aiken Standard, SCE&G currently has 3,500 workers employed in Jenkinsville at the company’s VC Summer plant for construction of the reactors. The company […]
January 25, 2016
Safety
Police use construction site to detonate old explosives found in warehouse
After a cleaning crew found 25Â-year-old, unstable dynamite in a construction company warehouse in Boxborough, Mass., last month, police were called to the location. According to the Lowell Sun, the warehouse was the former home of a nowÂ-defunct construction company, so the discovery was not considered to be suspicious. Since getting rid of unstable dynamite […]
January 22, 2016
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