LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Some of the 40 workers trapped for days in a collapsed road tunnel in northern India were falling sick Wednesday as falling debris and technical glitches delayed work to free them, officials said. Rescuers have been …
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The number of bodies recovered from a collapsed high-rise apartment building in Nigeria’s most populous city has risen to 36, an emergency official told The Associated Press Thursday. Ibrahim Farinloye of Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency …
PARIS — A scaffolding firm that has worked on the roof of Notre Dame said some of its workers had smoked on the site, but ruled out that a cigarette butt might have started the fire that destroyed the cathedral’s …
Officials say a portion of a parking garage being built in Los Angeles collapsed minutes after nearly 200 construction workers were alerted that something was wrong and fled to safety. Traffic was briefly snarled when a section of the structure …
Federal officials and trade groups are asking construction workers to take a break for safety as temperatures increase across the South. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is conducting a one-hour “safety stand-down” in Alabama, Georgia and other Southern states …
A wall has collapsed at a Hendersonville, Tenn., construction site and two construction workers were killed. The Tennessean reported a third worker was injured. Keith Douglas of Sumner County Emergency Management Agency said the injured worker was airlifted to Vanderbilt …
Four construction workers have been injured following an accident near the University of Central Florida in Orlando. The workers got hurt as a concrete floor was being lowered by a crane Monday at the site of an apartment building under …
Porridge. Breakfast of champions? Olympic organizers gave construction workers working on the Olympic village discounted porridge breakfasts to keep their blood sugar levels up – and found it reduced the number of accidents on site. The Olympic Delivery Authority, responsible …