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A construction contractor is calling for all workers on job sites in the state to hook into safety harnesses when they are working above six feet—a policy that has prevented 20 workers on the ...
As building booms in NC, more construction workers are dying on the job. But safety inspections have declined, a Charlotte Observer investigation found.
Providing worker safety on the job site can be a difficult task, due to the constant changes and activity occurring on the average job site. However, the importance of protecting construction workers ...
The company and 25 people were also charged with running a scheme that falsely certified thousands of workers as having completed required safety training.
Shocking footage that appears to show construction workers walking on a scaffold without proper harness protection has gone viral. Oranat Taesuwan/istock "This makes me nauseous," wrote u/Kir_NB.
Chinese construction workers who are not wearing safety equipment are drawing public outrage after a video of them hanging from the entrance to the construction site was released.
John W. Danforth Company, one of the largest mechanical contractors in the northeast, rolled out a special program to shine a ...
A 44-year-old construction worker may have unhooked his harness before he died Thursday,, according to the chief deputy coroner.
Hispanic workers are tackling many of the most dangerous tasks. And they sometimes face language barriers that make a hazardous job riskier.
McCarthy announced the rollout during National Construction Safety Week on Sept. 14-18. The harnesses, from MSA Safety Co., are a V-fit, in contrast to an H-style.
Two construction workers were rescued from a collapsed scaffolding on Wednesday that was hanging from the 12th and 13th floor of the DeMarcay in Sarasota. The Sarasota County Fire Department ...