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  • Category: Workplace Accidents

    Two Workers Die in Scaffold Collapse

    In late August of this year, two Florida construction workers were fatally injured when the scaffolding they were pouring concrete from collapsed and fell six floors. Although the cause of this particular incident is still under investigation, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) estimates that over 2 million men and women work on scaffolding[…]


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    High Hazard Workplaces

    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently began employing “site-specific targeting” (SST) in certain workplaces across the country. SST works by directing OSHA’s resources to highly hazardous workplaces, where employees are more likely to experience illness, injury and/or death. To determine which workplaces are the most hazardous, OSHA compiled occupational illness and injury data[…]


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    Struck-By Accidents

    Construction workers face a high risk of serious and sometimes fatal workplace accidents. Some of the most devastating injuries result from workers struck by objects. Struck-by accidents are included in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) “Focus Four” list of deadly construction accidents. OSHA’s Focus Four, in addition to struck-by accidents, includes electrocution, falls,[…]


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    Warehouse Worker Killed

    The recent death of a 50-year-old New York City marble warehouse worker highlights the all too common and deadly nature of crushing injuries in the workplace. Also referred to as caught in or between injuries, crushing injuries account for nearly 10% of the total worker fatalities that occur in the private construction industry annually. What[…]


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    Work Injury and Scaffolding Falls

    Construction workers are at a higher risk of being fatally injured on the job than workers in other industries and the number of fatalities on construction sites continues to increase. Approximately 65 percent of construction workers work on scaffolds regularly, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and falls from scaffolds are one[…]


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