Items Tagged with 'accidents'

A construction worker fell down a ventilation shaft while installing insulation.  

Work on the project has been halted as OSHA, police and airport officials investigate the incident.

David O’Donnell, 27, died in June 6 Chicago project accident, while Samantha Ruvolo Deschenes, 33, suffered fatal injuries May 30 in forklift rollover at a Portland, Ore., school construction site.

Nearly half of the participants in an Associated General Contractors' annual survey said work zones are less safe than a year ago.

Jessie Singer, author of “There Are No Accidents” (Simon & Schuster, 336 pages), works for a nonprofit dedicated to making cities safer for pedestrians and cyclists, but her views of error and accidents go far beyond urban life and cars.

Construction on Fern Hollow Bridge, which collapsed on Jan. 28, could begin by late April.

Darrin Carroll was running a little late for work. At about 7:20 a.m. on a cold January morning in 2019, the sun had not yet shown its face in northern Kentucky. Carroll, who had just reassured his employer that he was on his way, steered his red 2003 Chevrolet flatbed truck east along Richwood Road, a typical two-lane ribbon of black top. That's when everything went wrong.

Span had received poor superstructure ratings for more than a decade before Jan. 28 accident, according to National Bridge Inventory data.