OSHA has cited two contractors for alleged serious violations of safety standards following a June 2 scaffold collapse at Binghamton University in Vestal, N.Y., that injured six workers. The incident ...

(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 ...

Three roofers were injured when they fell two stories because a spruce plank used as the platform could not support the workers’ weight and snapped. OSHA claims the plank was not graded for scaffold ...

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 ...

Platforms must be fully planked or decked between front uprights and guardrail supports, with minimal gaps allowed. Minimum platform width is 16 in., with some exceptions based on space constraints.

Through the OSHA and Scaffold Industry Association Alliance, SIA has developed "Transport Platform Safety Tips." The Safety Tips are designed to educate users on the correct way to perform their work ...

What is a scaffold load path? The Merriam Webster Dictionary describes a path as a “trodden way.” It also describes a path as a “track specially constructed for a particular use” and “a way of life, ...

Investigators are looking into the collapse of a scaffold that left two window washers dangling from the nation's tallest skyscraper — One World Trade Center, which opened earlier this month. On ...

Firefighters managed to cut open glass panels two floors below the twisted scaffolding, which was set up around the city’s Hearst Tower skyscraper, and drag the maintenance workers to safety. The men ...