The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) wants to fine four contractors following the deaths of three workers at a West Campus construction site. The workers were killed in June 2009 ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- When a seven-story scaffold along a luxury apartment building under construction near Minute Maid Park collapsed like a row of dominos last month, reports of the damage gripped the ...

OSHA cited Austin Builders Inc., and proposed penalties totaling $229,250 for safety violations found at a Lithia, Fla., construction site. "The owner of this company demonstrated a total disregard ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — Agents with the Occupational ...

OSHA’s rules for scaffolding are in 29CFR1926, Subpart L. This runs a little less than seven pages, and the rules apply to employers. Since as a group employers don’t do so well with compliance ...

The National Safety Council, Itasca, Ill., recently released ANSI A10.8, Safety Requirements for Scaffolding, to establish safety requirements for the construction, operation, maintenance, and use of ...

The tragic increase in the construction death rate reported by the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) during the first year of the pandemic should concern all New Yorkers ...

Berglund Construction Company has been fined $85,116 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for violations that occurred when two workers were put in jeopardy on a scaffolding hanging ...

INVOLVED IN THE RESCUE. INDIANA. WE’VE LEARNED A CRITICAL PIECE OF EQUIPMENT ON THAT SCAFFOLDING FAILED, WHICH CAUSED IT TO DROP AT THAT 45 DEGREE ANGLE. YOU CAN SEE IT NO LONGER UP THERE. THE TWO ON ...

Luck was with a worker on Sept. 28, 2011, when he fell 80 feet to a lower level from the top of a 118-foot-high scaffold and survived. The same can’t be said of masonry contractor Navillus Contracting ...

It is safe to say that every power plant in the world uses scaffolding in some way, shape, or form. It is a critical component for many maintenance activities where permanently installed access is not ...