Health and Safety

Mon August 31, 2015

Company in Fatal Stadium Accident Has Past Safety Citations

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Records show a subcontractor involved in a fatal accident at the Minnesota Viking stadium construction site has received numerous citations for violating safety standards at its worksites....

MICHAEL RUBINKAM - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wed August 26, 2015

Driverless Trucks Protect People-Filled Work Zones

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) - Roving construction crews - the kind you see blacktopping a road, painting lines, inspecting a bridge or installing a traffic signal - are often protected from oncoming traffic by a specialized truck outfitted with a crash barrier....

Wed August 26, 2015

WTC Slurry Wall May Be Leaking

The website DNAinfo is reporting that an underground leak has been discovered within the World Trade Center complex — and officials fear the seepage may be coming from the slurry wall that separates the newly rebuilt Ground Zero site from the Hudson River....

Tue August 25, 2015

Some States to Test New, Safer Guardrails

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - Some roadways in Texas and around the country will get new guardrails after Texas A&M University found that a specially made reinforced concrete barrier works better to protect drivers....

Mon August 24, 2015

Contractor Faces Criminal Charges for Asbestos Exposure

OKAWVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A southern Illinois contractor whose companies were fined nearly $2 million for federal workplace safety violations involving asbestos exposure could face a criminal inquiry. The U.S....

Fri August 21, 2015

Gas Explosion Injures Three Workers, One Critically

New York Affiliate WPIX11 is reporting that Three private contractors sustained serious burns after an explosion rocked John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx Thursday evening. FDNY, NYPD and OEM all responded to the school, located at 99 Terrace View Ave....

Fri August 21, 2015

Scaffold Collapse Kills 1 Worker, Injures Seven

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) - A six-story scaffold collapsed Tuesday outside a New Mexico medical center, killing one construction worker and injuring seven others including three critically, authorities said....

Fri August 14, 2015

New Cat Monitoring System to Address the ’Human Factor’

Caterpillar launched a 24/7 equipment operator monitoring service to provide customers the power to see, mitigate and manage the primary variable impacting their operations - the human factor. Through in-cab and wearable safety technologies, Caterpillar now can provide customers with visibility to both machine and operator information....

Joan Lowy - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Fri August 14, 2015

Few Rails Likely to Meet Safety Tech Deadline

WASHINGTON (AP) Only a handful of railroads are close to meeting a deadline this year to install safety technology that can prevent many crashes, including derailments due to excessive speed like the deadly Amtrak crash in Philadelphia in May, according to a government report released Aug....

Mon August 10, 2015

Contractors Charged in Death of Worker

NEW YORK (AP) - Two construction companies and two supervisors were charged with manslaughter and other crimes in the death of a worker who was crushed this year, authorities said Wednesday in announcing a task force to investigate misconduct in the booming building industry....