Articles Tagged with ''OSHA''

On-the-job fatality rate rose by 11% in 2022 for construction and extraction workers, the second highest of all industries, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

OSHA also recommends the use of safety helmets on construction sites, but has not mandated the change. 

Employers say the change would give union representatives access to nonunion jobsites and create safety liabilities.

A worker was wearing safety gear when he fell, but a steel beam cut his lifeline. 

State report faults agency for not posting proper signage alerting motorists to construction site in median but “serious” violation carries no financial penalty in wake of I-695 work zone incident that killed six.

Triumph Construction failed to properly support a trench before a slab collapsed on two workers, OSHA officials say.

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.

The absence of a fatality or an accident, someone said recently, “doesn’t mean the presence of safety.” Many people involved in safety will appreciate the significance of those words.

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

Contractor groups say data from injury report forms OSHA plans to post online could be mischaracterized.