After years of study, OSHA implemented revised steel erection standards in January. Changes will affect requirements for site layout and construction sequence, site-specific erection plans, hoisting ...

The 730,000-sq-ft Milwaukee Bucks Arena required construction of approximately 8,000 tons of structural steel, including structural column and beam steel framing for ...

Roth Metal Works, a Brooklyn steel erection contractor, faces a total of $45,750 in proposed fines for one willful and four serious citations. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and ...

One of the most long-standing and vexing issues under the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act has been that of allocating responsibility for violations on multiemployer worksites. The problem is ...

The technical amendment was added as a result of the May 15, 2004, collapse of a steel bridge beam onto an interstate highway in Colorado, killing three people in an SUV passing below. Almost four ...

Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...