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Mario Bladimir Andino Renteria, 32, died when a crane arm failed and dropped its load of mechanical equipment on him during work to replace air handling equipment at HCA Florida Mercy Hospital.

Water systems, and their design and construction experts, boost efforts to eliminate contamination from ubiquitous 'forever’ chemicals, a key component of widely used firefighting foam runoff—as federal rules, technologies and costs catch up.

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration probe into the fatal February collapse of an oceanfront condo balcony found a failure by the contractor to properly stabilize it and improper securing of lifelines.

The proposal would affect more than two million miles of gas distribution lines in the U.S. It was spurred by a fatal 2018 gas explosion in Massachusetts.

A new Interior Dept. rule largely echoes changes made in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that were later walked back under the Trump administration. 

At least 18 people were killed in the collapse, state officials said.

Floodwater diverted from Beijing has caused major damage in the Hai River basin, but no official damage cost or detail has yet been released as China’s government said it has allocated $124 million for immediate post-disaster relief and reconstruction.

OSHA found workers were exposed to another potential collapse in the same trench a month after the fatal incident.

More than 1,200 appeals cases each year go before overworked OSHA Review Commission judges.

The New York City Dept. of Buildings is investigating the cause of an engine fire and the boom failure.