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More Hispanic workers die in American workplace accidents; negligence is evident
In America, the number of workplace deaths has declined — but not for Hispanics.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says worker deaths overall dropped from 6,217 in 1992 to 5,657 in 2007, a reduction of about 8 per cent. Yet Hispanic worker deaths in the same period increased from 533 in 1992 to 937 in [...]
Construction crane fatalities becoming epidemic
Are construction crane fatalities officially an epidemic yet? Already this year, people have died in Houston, Oklahoma City, New York City (in two separate accidents) and now Central Texas. And as tragic as those deaths are, the frequency of the calamities is becoming almost as routine as celebrities who can afford chauffeurs being arrested for [...]
Another construction crane kills, with no end in sight
Less than a week after a construction crane accident claimed the lives of four oil refinery contract workers in Houston, a crane accident in Oklahoma City took the life of an 80-year-old man who was simply an onlooker while a church steeple was being placed.
The man was sitting in the front [...]
Construction crane collapse shows collapse in safety
What will it take to wake up Texas to its horrific problem with construction crane collapses? Texans like to think of their state as No. 1, but sometimes it’s No. 1 for the wrong reasons, and that’s too often the case with construction crane fatalities.
In 2005 and 2006, Texas led the nation in construction crane [...]
