Agency recommends improved severe weather safety procedures after the partial collapse in Illinois that killed six workers but raises no issues over design or construction.
Total recordable injury rates have no connection to fatalities, according to a recent study of the statistic—and the death of laborer Mason Mack Harris may be a tragic example.
The head of a Boston-based construction company that lost two workers in a fatal accident last year now faces nearly $2 million in total fines after safety violations on a new project.