Health and Safety

Thu October 08, 2015

Construction Owner Arrested for Fraud, Theft

BAKER, La. (AP) - A Baton Rouge construction owner is facing fraud charges after authorities say he swindled several elderly Baker residents out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Baker Police Chief Mike Knapps tells local media that officers arrested 63-year-old Tanweer Bhatti on Monday for fraud and theft of assets from aged persons....

Tue October 06, 2015

Drunk Driver Charged in Construction Zone Crash

IRVING, Texas (AP) - Authorities say a 36-year-old Grapevine woman is accused of being intoxicated when she struck a police officer’s vehicle in Irving, seriously injuring the officer. According to authorities, an unidentified officer was blocking traffic in a construction zone near the local headquarters of Mothers Against Drunk Driving when Nicole Elaine Arreola struck the back of his car around 3:30 a.m....

Mon October 05, 2015

Man Arrested in Connection With Fire at Construction Site

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Philadelphia man has been arrested in connection with a Center City fire that caused more than $1 million in damages. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives say 52-year-old Stephen Pettiway was arrested Wednesday afternoon and charged with arson....

Lori Tobias - Thu October 01, 2015

Fighting Fire With Iron

News of forest fires generally calls to mind the courageous souls who risk their lives to fight them. As it turns out, there’s another component to the battle — heavy equipment and lots of it, too....

Giles Lambertson - Mon October 26, 2015

Workplace Safety is Keyed to Culture, Not Regulations

Anyone familiar with construction sites knows they are dangerous places. Changing conditions, heavy moving machinery, intense labor concentrations—construction sites have everything that makes safety engineers shudder....

Wed September 30, 2015

Casagrande Drill Tips Over in NYC

Local New York news affiliate WABC is reporting that a construction vehicle flipped backward while entering a construction site in Midtown Manhattan Monday morning. The accident happened at West 30th Street and Sixth Avenue....

Fri September 25, 2015

Scrapyard Worker Cuts Into Ordnance, Killed by Blast

A man died in an explosion at a scrapyard in Tucson, Arizona, on Wednesday after he cut a piece of military ordnance, police said. "The employee worked as a cutter," Tucson Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Bay told CNN....

Thu September 24, 2015

Utah Studies Smoking, Drinking Rates of its Construction Workers

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah residents who work in construction and manufacturing are more likely to smoke and binge drink than workers in other industries, according to a new report from Utah’s Department of Health....

Thu September 24, 2015

Construction Crew Accidentally Buries Drunken Man Alive

New Delhi (AP) - Road construction workers in central India killed a man when they accidentally buried him in a pit while repairing a road, police said Tuesday. The road repair crew failed to notice that a drunken man had fallen into a crater on the side of the road in Sleemanabad, a village in Madhya Pradesh state....

Tue September 22, 2015

Fired Disabled Construction Worker to Get New Trial

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A man who sued over what he says was his wrongful firing after his company refused to accommodate disabilities he suffered on the job should get a new trial, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday....