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A look into new building construction safety
Boston 25 News   29 June 2017   USA   Boston, Massachusetts  
<p>This type of lightweight wood construction is being used more and more in Boston as the city tries to help meet its need for more affordable housing.<br />This particular building in the Ashmont section of Dorchester was built almost entirely out of wood. ...
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Oakland construction accident: 9 workers hurt in collapse
SF Gate   01 June 2017   United States   Americas  
Collapsed formwork (source: SF gate, Photo: Jim Stone, Special to The Chronicle)
<p>Nine workers were injured Friday when a building partially collapsed at an Oakland construction site near downtown, forcing a desperate and successful effort to free many of them from wet concrete.</p><p>No workers were seriously injured in the collapse, ...
Cars burn on Shaikh Zayed Road after crane falls
Emirates 24/7   06 February 2017  
Collapsed crane (source: Emirates 24/7)
<p>A construction crane has collapsed on Shaikh Zayed Road during high winds.</p> <p>The official Dubai Media Office said the crane toppled onto Sheikh Zayed Road on Friday afternoon, injuring at least one person and setting three cars alight. Rescue crews ...
Riyadh Metro sees more than 3m safe work hours in 2016
Riyadh Metro Station (source: ME Construction News)
<p>The Riyadh Metro project completed more than three million safe work hours in 2016, the leader of the joint venture working on the massive infrastructure project has announced.</p> <p>Parsons, the global engineering, construction, technical and management ...
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At least 40 killed in China construction accident: Xinhua
Reuters   24 November 2016   China   Asia  
Rescue workers search the site where a power plant's cooling tower under construction collapsed, in Fengcheng, Jiangxi province, China, November 24, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer
<p>At least 40 people have died and others are still trapped after a platform under construction at a power plant's cooling tower in eastern China's Jiangxi province collapsed on Thursday, state news agency Xinhua said.</p> <p>The accident happened in Fengcheng ...