The company was cited for eight repeat and 13 serious [...]
Here's an eye-popping photograph showing workers perched on makeshift scaffolding that could shift or snap without warning.
This photograph of bricks tumbling from a scaffold shows how vital it is for workers to secure tools and materials against movement when working from scaffolds or other elevated areas. Anyone working or walking below could easily have been killed by the falling materials.
Gymnastics should be considered one of the skills of safe ladder use. This worker is shown straddling two ladders, with one foot on each. This looks like a recipe for a nasty or even fatal fall.
This makeshift scaffold, made from ladders lashed together, screams trouble even before anyone sets foot on it.
This picture illustrates a depressingly common half-measure in construction--the use of an unsafe work platform that provides zero fall protection to workers.
After a worker fell 100 feet from a scaffolding system, [...]
OSHA opened an inspection at a Richardson, TX. worksite in [...]
OSHA conducted an investigation at a Covington, LA, worksite in [...]
This video trains workers in the correct way to erect, maintain and use scaffolds. Includes, creating a stable foundation, platforms and planking, Power Lines, ramps and walkways, fall protection and more.
(21 minutes)
Excellent training program for anyone working on or near scaffolding. Attention given to safety rules, operating procedures and safe use of scaffolding. Meets scaffold training requirements.
WHAT'S AT STAKE When you can’t safely reach the work [...]
People who aren’t expecting to end up in water often are not prepared for that possibility and the results can be tragic. Every year in the United States and Canada, an estimated 3,800 people drown, with many of these victims being people who ended up in the water unintentionally.
Did you know 90% of all falls involving scaffolds happen while workers are performing routine jobs and the average height of those falls are just 12 to 15 feet?
OSHA conducted a safety and health inspection in August 2007 [...]
OSHA has proposed $54,250 in fines after twice finding workers [...]
Five workers were standing on a scaffold nine stories off the ground as they were plastering the exterior of a high rise apartment building. The scaffold collapsed, sending three of them to their deaths.
Having a swing stage scaffold motor fail can be a pain, but if a worker is left stranded in a hazardous area, he or she can die.
Employees working for a plumbing contractor were hoisting pipes up from ground level to higher levels for storage. They were standing on structural steel while they transferred the pipes to the floor above. One employee
A 66-year-old carpenter died after falling from the plank of an improvised scaffold.
Just as construction can be dangerous work, so can taking structures down. This proved to be the case for a crew repairing a signboard located high up the side of a building. They had completed
A worker died of a broken neck and skull after he fell 23 feet from a scaffold. He was working part-time as a welder-fitter. He did not have experience in working from a scaffold.
A young man was working on a building renovation project. He was inexperienced, and was working part-time for a sub-contractor. Despite repeated warnings not to do so, he had been in the habit of climbing
Two employees were painting the outside of a three-story building. They were standing on a two-point suspension scaffold. The outriggers for the scaffold were inadequately counterweighted with three five-gallon (18.93-liter) buckets of sand. They were
One defective plank was the cause of a three-story fall that killed a bricklayer. He was part of a crew laying bricks on the top floor of a building. They had built a six-foot (1.83-meter)
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