via Youtube On the morning of October 17, a load of CMU block was loaded onto a brownstone in Crown Heights, New York City, when the concentrated weight of the blocks caused a partial collapse all the way to the basement of the building. Of the 9 total workers on...
Courtesy of the University of British Columbia Concrete is an extremely strong building material, but has a notoriously weak tensile strength. In order to resist tension, bending, and shear forces, steel rebar or other reinforcement materials are added either prior...
Construction Safety is talked about constantly. There are many construction companies that take it very seriously. There are also many that don’t. All will say it’s their top priority.So what can a city do that’s facing regular worker deaths and increases in...
According to the Workzonesafety.com, nearly half (46%) of all work zone-associated worker fatalities from 2003-2010 were caused by being struck by a vehicle. Surprisingly, only around 2% of those workers were killed by a drunk driver. From 2003 to 2015 (the last year...
Residents living near a Jersey City, New Jersey construction site were frightened as they watched “explosions” of smoke coming out of holes in the ground. In order to break up some rock in the subgrade, contractors used a chemical called Da-Mite, according to NJ.com,...
The photo above was not from the same job site mentioned below. Photo by dankeck Portable toilets are the setting for many pranks around a construction site, but I never thought there could be something worse than just getting stuck in one. Turns out I was extremely...
