Heads Up! In Work Zones
We all encounter building projects in our workplace, on the road and in our neighborhoods. You have to be aware of the hazards or risk serious injury.
We all encounter building projects in our workplace, on the road and in our neighborhoods. You have to be aware of the hazards or risk serious injury.
Each year over 20,000 workers are injured and hundreds are killed in road construction work zones.
Highway work zones continue to have far too many traffic fatalities. Hundreds of people are killed in work zones each year. The victims include both construction workers and occupants of the vehicles trying to rush past them.

Asphalt Company Charged for Clean Environment Act Violations for installing [...]
The driver of a flat deck truck loaded with bricks was killed when the vehicle hit a soft shoulder, went out of control, crossed into oncoming traffic and collided head-on with a tractor-trailer. The incident
Two members of a construction crew were killed where they were working at the side of a busy highway. They were struck by a trailer that came loose from a company truck. Although this fatal
A 41-year-old worker was killed when a car struck him while he was flagging traffic. He was part of a road crew that was replacing a sign on the side of a road.
Emergency crews were called to a back alley at about [...]
There are warning signs everywhere, but highway work zones are [...]

A critical element of every construction company’s environmental health and [...]
Can you spot the OSHA violation in this picture?
This photo illustrates the importance of protecting workers in road and highway construction zones against motor vehicle traffic hazards.