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The collapse of a catwalk in a defunct, 124-year-old power plant building in Boston injured three workers.

Agency recommends improved severe weather safety procedures after the partial collapse in Illinois that killed six workers but raises no issues over design or construction.

OSHA says Arizona has been delinquent in adopting national safety standards since 2015.

Work resumed two weeks after a worked died at the Government Center parking garage in Boston on March 26.

Proposed designations could mandate added preconstruction permitting for some types of projects.

Total recordable injury rates have no connection to fatalities, according to a recent study of the statistic—and the death of laborer Mason Mack Harris may be a tragic example.

Despite overall trend, the number of deaths increased by one, to 9 in 2021, and all construction-related injuries rose by three, to 505.

U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report concludes that greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025 to hit goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C, or 2.7°F.