(The Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program is tasked with investigating fatalities and making recommendations to ensure they do not occur again. This is one of their ...

I am continually perplexed by the questions that arise concerning platforms and planks. It appears that it starts with a misunderstanding of what constitutes a platform. For some, a platform is any ...

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Two workers were able to safely make it off a scaffold platform after it dangled from the U.S. Bank Tower in downtown Cincinnati Tuesday. The workers were on the platform when one ...

OSHA's scaffold access rules prohibit climbing crossbraces; employers must provide alternative safe access methods. Specific requirements exist for ladders, stairways, ramps, and integrated access ...

BOSTON (AP) — A construction platform plunged 13-stories onto a Boston street, killing two workers and a passing motorist, after a worker removed a metal tie securing the scaffolding to the side of a ...

A crew of more than 25 worked through the night to raise a 28,000-lb. platform 400 ft. in the air, signaling the official start of the tower’s historic Century Project renovation On Friday, September ...

Manufacturer introduces its new suspended scaffolding hoist to the construction industry. Designated Tirak L-500 Series, the scaffold hoist has a 1,000-lb rated load capacity and is fitted with a ...