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Workforce
Construction crew rips roof from wrong residence near Cleveland
Your roof. It’s not necessarily something you think about unless it’s leaking or you’re installing one. Or, in the case of one particular Cleveland man, it’s being torn off your home. According to the Cleveland.com police blotter for the city of Avon, a construction crew made the following costly mistake: “A man called and said […]
March 20, 2015
Roadbuilding
Crane sends pipe careening into Seattle bus on Highway 520 bridge followed by a crashing traffic sign
Eight passengers on a bus traveling across the Highway 520 in Seattle were hospitalized Tuesday night after a construction accident resulted in a traffic sign toppling atop the bus. According to a report from the Seattle Times, Washington State Department of Transportation and Washington State Patrol officials said a crane lifting pipe as part of the Highway […]
March 19, 2015
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Woman killed near NYC jobsite after being struck by plywood in freak accident
A woman walking in New York City was killed Tuesday afternoon after being struck by a piece of plywood blown from a nearby jobsite. According to a report from the New York Daily News, 37-year-old Trang-Thuy Nguyen was walking along along W. 12th Street and talking on her cell phone when a gust of wind tore a 4-foot […]
March 19, 2015
Safety
Worker dies after 11-foot fall in Arkansas
A construction worker was killed Tuesday afternoon in Little Rock, Arkansas, following a fall from only 11 feet. According to a report from Arkansas Online, 29-year-old Erik Rivera Pontilla fell from a beam he was bolting into place. The Little Rock Police Department told the site that Pontilla lost his footing and fell directly onto a slab below. No […]
March 18, 2015
Workforce
Construction expected to near pre-recession employment highs by 2022
Construction employment will likely grow by 29 percent between 2012 and 2022, according to a report by the CPWR Data Center. According to the center, that would put the number of construction workers in the U.S. at 11.5 million, just under the industry record set in 2007 before the recession took hold. Funded by NIOSH and using […]
March 17, 2015
Business
Home starts plunge 17% in February as cold weather and worker shortage drop builder confidence
With spring right around the corner, U.S. home builders are certainly looking forward to the warmer temperatures and the official start of the construction season as starts on new homes took a steep plunge in February. Construction on new homes in the U.S. fell 17 percent in February, following a flat January, according to preliminary […]
March 17, 2015
Roadbuilding
Arizona DOT partners with college on Highway Construction Pre-Apprenticeship certification
The Arizona Department of Transportation is partnering with Gateway Community College to offer a Highway Construction Pre-Apprenticeship certification program beginning March 23. The program is being offered through ADOT’s Business Engagement and Compliance Office and is funded through the Federal Highway Administration. The program ends May 7. “This outreach program has a specific purpose to […]
March 17, 2015
Workforce
Skull found on Louisville construction site sparks search for more remains
Work has slowed on a Louisville, Kentucky, jobsite where construction workers recently gained a bit more company as police and volunteers are combing the area after a skull was found on the jobsite early last week. According to a report from WHAS TV, workers excavating a site for a Habitat for Humanity neighborhood found the skull March […]
March 16, 2015
Safety
Worker killed after being thrown from machine in North Carolina
Law enforcement and Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials are investigating the death of a construction worker on a jobsite in Rutherford County, North Carolina. According to a report from WLOS TV, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said Blake Luckadoo was killed on the job Friday morning. Luckadoo worked as an operator for Sisk Grading which […]
March 16, 2015
Workforce
Freeing trapped raccoon costs carpenter his job in San Francisco
“I’m going to do what is necessary for this raccoon.” According to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle, those were among carpenter Todd Sutton’s last words while still employed by RFJ Meiswinkel Co., and he has no regrets. Sutton was recently fired by the company after he freed a raccoon that had been causing trouble at the […]
March 12, 2015
Workforce
Worker shot and killed on Atlanta jobsite after confronting thief attempting to steal his pickup
While on the job at an Atlanta grocery store, a construction worker was shot and killed Tuesday after confronting a man that appeared to be stealing his truck. According to a report from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 38-year-old Joshua R. Richey and co-worker Jason Shelton were working at a Kroger on the east side of the city on […]
March 11, 2015
Workforce
Skilled worker shortage in Omaha problematic for several major construction projects, delaying smaller ones
The Omaha area is in the midst of a major construction boom that its local workforce simply isn’t equipped to handle. According to a report from the Omaha World-Herald, a $400 million data center expansion in Council Bluffs has required the services of 2,000 construction workers alone and it’s unclear just when the project will be […]
March 10, 2015
Roadbuilding
National Work Zone Awareness Week is March 23-27
“Expect the Unexpected” is the theme for this year’s National Work Zone Awareness Week, a campaign designed to promote safe driving through highway work zones and construction sites. First launched in 2000 by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA), and the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO), […]
March 10, 2015
Business
Contractor optimism reaches historic high in annual construction industry forecast
The last time contractors were this optimistic, the economy tanked and went into the longest and deepest recession since the Great Depression. That was ten years ago. Today’s optimism is reported in the recently released Wells Fargo Construction Industry Forecast 2015. Of course this time, as economists like to say, it’s different. The last recession […]
March 9, 2015
Safety
Worker survives being impaled on rebar after 15-foot fall on Massachusetts jobsite
It took rescue workers and firefighters more than an hour to free a construction worker in southeast Massachusetts who had fallen onto rebar. According to a report from the Sippican Week, the worker is part of a crew building a new waste services complex in Rochester. The unidentified man fell 15 feet onto the section of […]
March 9, 2015
Workforce
Construction adds 29,000 jobs in February
U.S construction firms added 29,000 workers to their payrolls in February, extending the industry’s streak of employment gains to 14 months. The industry now employs 6.353 million Americans, according to preliminary data from the Labor Department. The new data also revised the employment figure for January upward from the previously reported 6.314 million, to 6.324 million. The revision […]
March 5, 2015
Workforce
Disneyland masks its construction sites with magical artwork of whatever is being built
If you’ve ever been to either of the Disney parks here in the U.S. you know that the magical castle, whether belonging to Cinderella at Disney World in Orlando, or Sleeping Beauty at Disneyland in Anaheim, is the centerpiece of the park. So what does Disney do when not just one but two of its […]
March 5, 2015
Safety
67-year-old worker survives 25-foot dive into pit and the piece of metal that fell on top of him
Anyone able to keep up with the rigors of construction work while closing in on 70 must be doing something right. And anyone able to do that and survive a two-story fall into a pit must really be doing something right. According to a report from The Oregonian, a 67-year-old construction worker working on an upgrade to a water […]
March 4, 2015
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