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Residential Masonry Contractor Cited for Repeat, Serious Violations at Alabama Worksite
Fines totaling $48,000 have been proposed after inspectors found alleged repeat and serious safety violations. The repeat citations allege that [...]
Masonry Company Cited for Four Serious, 11 Repeat Safety Violations Carrying $210,000 in Proposed Penalties
OSHA issued the citations following an inspection that began in August 2007. The serious violations allege failure to provide scaffold [...]
Crane Touches Overhead Line – Spanish
Un obrero que trabajaba para su segundo día en un proyecto de construcción de carreteras fue electrocutado cuando una grúa [...]
Crane Touches Overhead Line
A swamper working for his second day on a highway construction project was electrocuted when a crane touched an overhead [...]
Crane Operator Crushed
A 55-year-old crane operator was killed when the bridge crane he was operating collapsed and crushed him. The victim was [...]
Crane Oiler Crushed
A crane oiler was crushed between counterweights and the superstructure (base) of a rotating mobile crane. The victim and the [...]
Crane Drops Metal Plate on Saw Operator
A saw operator died when struck by a 710-pound (322-kilogram) aluminum plate that fell while suspended by an overhead crane. [...]
Crane Contacts High Tension Wires
Early in the evening an operator of a crane was installing storm sewer pipes. Suddenly, the boom of the crane [...]
Counterweight Gives Way
Two employees were painting the outside of a three-story building. They were standing on a two-point suspension scaffold. The outriggers [...]
Contractors Sentenced to Jail For Worker’s Death
Two New York contractors have both been sentenced to six-month jail terms in connection with the death of a worker [...]
Construction Boss Decapitated by Boom
A construction supervisor was decapitated when he was struck by a boom from a crane. He was handling the tagline [...]
Carpenter Falls From Scaffold
A 66-year-old carpenter died after falling from the plank of an improvised scaffold. The victim had arrived that day from [...]
Cable Touches High Power Line
A worker died of electrocution when a cable hanging from a crane touched a high voltage power line. He was [...]
Big Beam Crushes Worker
A large steel beam fell from a storage crib and crushed a worker to death. The fatality happened when a [...]
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