A former construction company owner convicted of criminally negligent homicide after a worker was killed in an excavation in 2018 in New York City has reached a...
Dawn Morse makes a standing offer to workers whose employers don’t follow trench safety rules. “I’ve said, ‘If your company won’t give you shoring equipment or...
A Colorado contractor has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the death of an employee who was killed in a trench collapse in 2021. Peter Dillon, 54,...
Contractors can expect to see more inspections of jobsites for heat-related illnesses, under a new directive from President Joe Biden. On July 27, Biden called on...
Coming off a year of 35 fatal trench collapses, three contractors face six-figure penalties for trench violations recently issued in Washington, Connecticut and Ohio. The citations...
2022 may go down as one of the deadliest in over a decade for fatal trench collapses. The U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration reports that...
The contractor that employed an equipment operator who died in a garage collapse in Boston this year faces proposed penalties of $1.2 million, according to the...
After 22-year-old Carlos Moncayo was killed in a trench collapse in New York City in 2015, construction companies found guilty in the case had to pay...
Hot and humid summer days are right around the corner, and OSHA is cracking down on heat-related illnesses and injuries. On April 12, the Department of...
A West Seattle contractor has been sentenced to 45 days in jail and ordered to pay a $25,000 fine following the death of a worker in...
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