Articles Tagged with ''construction accidents''

Sometimes the most important ideas take a long time to sink in. Two books that have helped to reshape ideas about occupational safety, published by the same academic press in 2014 and 2012, are Sidney Dekker’s The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’ and Todd Conklin’s Pre-Accident Investigations.

On Feb. 12, 2020, Roy Rock LLC sent a concrete pump truck to Elizabeth, N.J., where a developer was constructing an apartment building. It had rained heavily much of the week.

State Division of Occupational Safety and Health officials are investigating the death of Chritopher Paul Smith, an employee of specialty contractor F.D. Thomas Inc.

There are solutions that employers can try that may make the transition easier.

A viewpoint commentary by two safety-minded professionals shows why new ideas may be hard to enact in construction.

A broken leg, an immigration arrest and a $650K jury award against a contractor related to safety violations.

Unidentified employee sustained fatal injuries while removing large piping at the San Jose plant construction site on June 14.