There might not be a more underappreciated topic in the construction industry than the U.S. Labor Department’s multiemployer citation policy.

Users can assemble a safety system that either saves or dooms a worker.

Jesse Ely, a union ironworker, can thank a net designed to catch falling debris for saving his life after a harrowing fall from the edge of a Seattle high-rise building.

I was born with part of my left hand missing. I only have my thumb, no fingers. I don’t ever call this a disability, which in my view is something that’s in someone’s mind.