On May 28 in Chongqing, scaffolding several meters high suddenly collapsed at a building façade construction site next to a roadside. At the moment of the collapse, a woman happened to be walking ...

You probably give little thought to the stairs you go up or down to reach different levels of your home, deck or patio. I’ll ...

Four construction workers have been injured, two critically, after scaffolding collapsed at a worksite in central Taiwan.

To understand stairs, let’s talk about floors. Like many Americans, you might live in a home with a wood-floor system.

John and Allie Sykes say the scaffolding has not only become an eyesore, it’s now damaging their property and threatening ...

The author discusses various labor laws. "I here examine two of those recurring themes, plus a third theme that also applies to the scaffold law’s sister statute, Labor Law §241(6)." ...

Stair towers have a proven efficiency and have improved safety over the use of ladders, which has resulted in their recognition as the preferred access system for scaffolding. While it is the main ...

Falls are the leading cause of medically attended injury in preschool children, and falls from stairs comprise 12% of hospital admissions and 18% of emergency department attendances for falls. Home ...

In response, the New York State legislature passed its first scaffold law, aiming to protect construction ... were held strictly responsible if they failed to provide adequate safety devices for ...

Three workers were killed and two were injured when a section of scaffolding collapsed early Tuesday at a liquefied natural gas plant that Sempra is building in Texas. The two survivors at the Port ...