Here’s a job any worker would be happy to pass off to a drone: Imagine crawling down a ladder into the vast darkness of a 20-story-high storage tank filled with toxic chemical fumes to spend hours searching for corrosion. More …
Construction workers in confined spaces like manholes and tanks will come under a new federal rule intended to give them similar protections to workers in manufacturing and other industries. The rule is being issued by the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety …
Cal/OSHA cited Artesia-based Express Chipping, Inc. following the death of a 40-year-old worker who was chipping concrete inside a cement mixer when he was struck by a 1,200-pound slab of concrete. Cal/OSHA cited the company for failing to identify the …
Difficult to access and usually within confined spaces yacht fires can grow into big losses quickly, posing challenges to both firefighters and insurers. Severity, a concern for high end watercraft insurers like AIG Private Client Group, led to the creation …