Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Construction sites are dynamic environments where the blend of heavy machinery, elevated work areas, and manual labor create a landscape fraught with potential hazards. While the construction industry ...

Nonfatal construction industry injuries and illnesses on the job declined in 2017 and the injury rate also was down, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported. Despite those positive results ...

The number of construction nonfatal injuries rose slightly last year but the industry’s injury rate improved, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported. The latest annual BLS report on ...

When it comes to hazards on the construction site, electrical contractors are very familiar with the risks that OSHA dubs the “fatal four” — electrocutions, falls, struck-by and caught-in/between. The ...

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Construction workers face some of the greatest risks for injuries on the job. Those in the industry have a higher risk of both fatal and non-fatal traumatic brain injuries compared to all other ...

Did you know that in 2019 a worker died every 99 minutes from a work-related injury? Many of these deaths took place among drivers, sales workers, and truck drivers (together, accounting for 1,005 ...

OSHA includes both falls from heights and slips and trips in this category. Most falls on construction sites are the result of uneven surfaces, improper mounting and dismounting from equipment, ...

A new construction safety bill the state Legislature passed Thursday will significantly increase the fines companies face following injuries to or the deaths of construction workers on their sites.