This week looks like one of the busiest for the Los Angeles Council as members struggle to come up with a final deal that best addresses improvements in railroad safety.
This hustle was spawned by several train wrecks in the past, the latest of which was the collision between a freight train and [...]

Last Tuesday was an unlucky day for two employees in Chicago when a tractor unexpectedly rolled on a construction site and injured both of them.
The two men are employees of Rainbow Construction. They were working in a residential garage when the tractor unexpectedly moved. Both victims had their legs caught in the tread of the [...]

We’ve heard so much about window washers falling from buildings and construction workers injuring themselves with collapsing cranes. Yesterday, another fatality happened; but this time it involved a forklift.
A Rudco Products employee got pinned against a trash compactor when his co-worker lost control of a forklift. Julio A. Rivera, 37, was immediately brought [...]

Thanks to firefighters, two window washers in San Jose were rescued after their platform got stuck 100 feet (nine stories) in the air. They were stranded for more than an hour until the firefighters rappelled down and hoisted them up one at a time.
If you think being stranded [...]

Welcome to part three of our series on “Heat stress”. So far we have discussed what heat stress is, the various conditions resulting from heat stress, and what to look for if you’ve been in the sun too long. In this article I want to talk about prevention, as well as what to do if [...]

A crane collapse in New York City killed two workers as it fell to the ground. This is the 2nd crane collapse in NYC in 2.5 months. City officials have stated that the lax in safety procedures is unacceptable, and would be investigated. You can read more about the story from CBS, [...]

In part one of our series on “Heat Stress” we found out what heat stress is. In part two I would like to go over the causes and the various heat related illnesses, what you need to know and what to look for. It’s a topic most of us don’t really think about, we work [...]

Working on or around railroad tracks can be a hazardous job if you’re not alert and paying attention to your surroundings. Getting hit by a train is almost certain to end your life. Working in railyards or out repairing track is hard work, it can be exhausting, and you can lose focus; these are the [...]

I was watching the news yesterday evening and saw the massive explosion that happened at the new San Diego Hilton Hotel. It happened around 2pm. Luckily it was still under construction, it could have been much worse if those nearly 1200 rooms were full. No one was killed, but 9 construction workers were injured, 3 [...]

I remember as a kid my father going to night school to become an electrician. He was already doing the job where he worked, he worked for a large television manufacturing plant. He worked in what he called the powerhouse, it was where all the transformers and generators for supplying electric to the plant were [...]