A jury in Jo Daviess County, Illinois has awarded $1.9 million to a painter who was injured in a 2003 accident. The personal injury settlement is believed to be the largest in the county’s history.
One man is dead after a girder gave way and fell from a 30-foot piling into Louisiana's Lake Pontchartrain from a new bridge under construction on Interstate 10.
14 construction workers were injured Monday afternoon in Nampa, Idaho when an bridge under construction collapsed under them while they were in the midst of pouring concrete for the structure.
A construction worker was killed and another seriously injured when a hydraulic lift platform became unstable and toppled to the ground on the campus of AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals in Waltham, Massachusetts.
OSHA has fined three construction firms a total of $313,500 for alleged safety violations leading to a March crane collapse which killed seven people.
A covered, wooden pedestrian walkway collapsed at a construction site in downtown San Diego Thursday and injured 16 people, three critically.
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