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The Spot-R tag from Triax Technologies can monitor when a worker experiences a sudden fall and alert supervisors. Now its compatible with site access control technology for a clearer view of where workers are on the jobsite.

In Sweden, a partnership between MIPS Corp., a company that specializes in helmet-liner systems for protecting the brain, and Guardio Safety AB, a Swedish industrial safety firm, has led to the release in June of a construction hardhat, or helmet, designed to mitigate brain-damaging forces that often are suffered in construction falls.

A stormy Sunday afternoon in Dallas with gusts of 70 mph or higher. A tower crane tied to a new apartment building frame tumbles, smashing a completed parking structure behind it.

With about 400 public works and public utilities employees in new locations, police probe could take six months of areas where 11 municipal staff and a contractor were killed by a project manager on May 31.

Safety board faults Sound Transit for failing to have "effective mitigation" for hazardous curve that lacked operating train-control safety system.

Seeing parallels to a fatal crane accident in Texas in 2012, crane specialist Terry McGettigan believes the Seattle crane collapse will be shown to have similar causes.

A tower crane being dismantled collapsed Saturday, April 27 in Seattle, killing two ironworkers on the crane and two bystanders on the street below.