Concrete Burns Fatality Report
Two men working for a municipality subcontractor died of burns [...]
Two men working for a municipality subcontractor died of burns [...]
What’s wrong in this picture? There is a construction worker [...]
QUÉ ESTÁ EN RIESGO Charla sobre la seguridad de las [...]
HECHOS Las tres principales reacciones cutáneas al hormigón son; Irritación [...]
Dos hombres que trabajaban para un subcontratista de la municipalidad [...]
¿Qué hay de malo en esta foto? Hay un obrero [...]
QUÉ ESTÁ EN RIESGO El trabajo del hormigón suele ser [...]
Los trabajos en hormigón entrañan riesgos El hormigón fresco es [...]
Un trabajador de 23 años de una empresa que produce [...]
¿Qué hay de malo en esta imagen? Las obras de [...]
A 23-year-old worker at a company that produces concrete and [...]
What’s wrong in this picture? Concrete works provide livelihood to [...]
WHAT’S AT STAKE Concrete work is usually hard physical labor [...]
Concrete burns– Fresh concrete is abrasive and caustic in nature. [...]
WHAT’S AT STAKE? Many common construction work tasks generate harmful [...]
WHAT’S AT STAKE? RESPIRABLE CRYSTALLINE SILICA (SILICA DUST) Millions of [...]
DID YOU KNOW? One of the largest masonry contractors in [...]
WHAT EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES CAN DO TO PREVENT SILICOSIS INTRODUCTION [...]
LO QUE LOS EMPLEADORES Y LOS EMPLEADOS PUEDEN HACER PARA [...]
INTRODUCTION Working with stone poses many dangers for workers. There [...]
INTRODUCCIÓN Trabajar con piedra presenta muchos peligros para los trabajadores. [...]
A 40-year-old worker was killed at a construction site recently in Toronto. According to police, concrete panels had fallen onto the worker as they were being unloaded, and the man became trapped.

The potential for serious injuries and even fatalities is very high when thinking about work involved for concrete and masonry workers. Precast concrete, lift-slab operations, and masonry construction all pose different types of risk, and all have the potential for multiple employees to be hurt or killed if these risks are ignored.

Responding to a complaint, OSHA inspected a metal hose manufacturing [...]