The construction industry showed improvement last year in a key safety indicator, its rate of nonfatal jobsite injuries and illnesses, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. But the bureau's report, ...

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 ...

Building professionals aim for a zero-injury culture as project complexity and workforce demands increase. Is this goal ...

Despite significant improvements in the last 25 years, U.S. construction workers are still at high risk for on-the-job injuries to muscles, tendons, joints and nerves, a new study reports. These ...

Construction workers do a lot of lifting on the job, and the construction industry has one of the highest incident rates of back injuries. Most of the time, construction workers probably don’t think ...

Type II helmets better protect workers from fatal falls, yet are underused, writes the director of Virginia Tech’s helmet ...

When people head to their workplace each day – wherever it may be – they may be thinking about their to-do list, a meeting with their supervisor, or even how to overcome a challenging work task. No ...

Reported construction injuries in the city have been higher in 2018 than in any year of the post-recession building boom while fatalities will at least match the high-water mark of recent years, new ...

When conducting discovery in personal injury matters that arise from construction accidents, the discovery requests, like in other matters, dictate the documents received. However, the difference is ...

The city saw a quarter fewer construction injuries during the first 10 months of this year even as the building boom continued. Construction injuries fell from 672 between January and October 2018 to ...