The International Powered Access Federation said its accident database logged 17 fatalities during the first half of 2012, with 11 of those in the United States.
IOSH is urging all construction companies to learn from the London 2012 building project’s success and put five good practices to use.
The temporary enforcement policy will be in effect from July 26 to Nov. 8, 2013.
Timothy E. Hogan now oversees emergency and safety operations, complaint inspections, and construction accident investigations.
OSHA said its investigation was triggered by a whistleblower's complaint.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Acting FAA Administrator Michael Huerta participated in the groundbreaking July 9.
A moment of silence at noon July 11 will honor two workers who died when a tower crane collapsed while being disassembled on the campus.
About 1,000 people will attend the 8th World Congress on High Speed Rail, including transport ministers and rail system chiefs from the United States, Japan, Russia, China, Spain, Poland, and other countries.
An afternoon signing ceremony at the White House will include construction workers and students, two groups that will benefit from the law.
The required compliance deadline will now go into effect Sept. 15, 2012.
Allegedly willful violations of fall hazards were the cause of $315,000 of the penalties OSHA filed against two concrete contractors for a Jersey City, N.J. site.
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work reviewed current research on the topic and concluded knowledge of the risks posed by nanomaterials is still poor.
NIOSH identified seven primary sources of silica dust exposure during fracturing operations and found that workers downwind of sand mover and blender operations, especially during hot loading, had the highest silica exposures.
The agency's chief, Ellen Widess, said the employer disregarded a city stop work order in January 2012, and a carpenter's death followed three days later.
OSHA, the Southern Nevada Water Authority, and the contractor are investigating the June 11 death of the victim, identified by KLAS-TV as Thomas Turner, 44.
The agency found that diesel exhaust is a cause of lung cancer and also noted a positive association (limited evidence) with an increased risk of bladder cancer.
The plan remains to deconstruct it. Leaders of the Anglican diocese and architects are touring some of the world's great cathedrals to develop ideas for rebuilding.
OSHA has issued citations for two serious violations involving exposing workers to electrocution hazards when they are working in close proximity to energized parts without approved insulating safeguards and failing to discontinue the power line work in high winds.
Revised last month, it reminds them that any work done more than 6 feet above a lower level requires some form of fall protection.
The citations address the employer's failure to ensure that the concrete foundation was structurally sound and the structural steel was constantly stable during the erection process.