Lifting technology and industry standards have advanced significantly since the mid- 1990s, when the Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association put out the Exxon Crane Guide.
Construction workplace deaths climbed last year to their highest level since 2008 but the industry’s fatality rate edged downward, the Labor Dept. has reported.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the collapse of steel framework on a university project site in Smithfield, R.I. that injured six ironworkers in early September.
State safety investigators and Minneapolis-based Mortenson Construction are seeking to determine the cause of a worker fatality on the $1.1-billion U.S. Bank Stadium project, which was being monitored via an enhanced safety program with the Minnesota Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Workers returned Aug. 24th to a portion of a New Mexico hospital construction site near where a fatal scaffold collapse occurred, says a spokeswoman for McCarthy Building Cos., the project's Phoenix-based construction manager.
With the recent Legionnaires’ disease outbreak apparently under control, the New York City Councils’ newly adopted law requiring building owners to certify, test and clean building cooling towers has set off a flurry of work.
Third-generation union ironworker Lawrence O’Leary, 54, died on July 25, following injuries from a fall at a Logan International Airport construction site two weeks earlier, officials reported.
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