News New York State’s construction death rate rises 9% A report from New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) has found that across the state, the construction fatality rate increased from 10.2% to 11.1% per 100,000 workers…
News Turkey ‘rounding up contractors’ as critics slam lax regulation Authorities in Turkey have begun targeting contractors after last week’s catastrophic earthquakes destroyed some 25,000 buildings in southern Turkey and northeastern Syria, leading to the combined deaths of at least…
News Turkish, Syrian cities destroyed in violent earthquakes A series of major earthquakes and aftershocks have devastated multiple cities in the southeastern Anatolia region of Turkey and northwestern Syria starting in the early hours of 6 February, with…
News Eight construction workers dead after fire in Crimea At least eight workers have been killed following a fire at a temporary residence in the Crimean capital of Sevastopol. Reuters reports that local police blamed the fire on an…
News Arkansas contractor fined $287,000 after two workers die in sewer Belt Construction Inc, a contractor based in Arkansas, has been fined $287,150 after two employees asphyxiated while working in a confined space. One lost consciousness in a sewer 20ft below…
News Man electrocuted at apartment under construction A 50-year old man has died in Chennai, southern India, having been found electrocuted after visiting an unfinished apartment he had bought. The man, named as Paalpandi by The Hindu…