Safety Articles

Safety isn’t sexy. No one gets excited about gas monitors. But no one likes pulling dead bodies out of a sewer either.Accidents...

The dangers on your job sites are constant, and staying safe requires more than a hard hat, gloves and glasses. As technology...

Working in trenches and excavations is potentially one of the most hazardous types of work in the construction and utility industries.One reason?...

Personal safety precautions are vital in any sort of construction and maintenance setting, but even more so when the work requires entry into...

Each year, about 100 workers in the U.S. die in confined-space incidents.The sad fact is that most of those workers were never...

You don’t have to be in a car to get killed in a car accident.Struck-by, struck-against and back-over incidents are far too...

April marks the 10th annual National Safe Digging Month. Subsite Electronics, a Charles Machine Works Company, is among 1,700 members of the...

A worker in Omaha, Nebraska, was saved last week after being trapped in a collapsed trench for nearly seven hours.According to a...

Rub some dirt on it and walk it off was probably good enough health advice for the playground when we were kids....

Never again” he wrote on his Facebook page after a trench in which he was working collapsed in May. A month later,...

A Boston contractor is facing criminal charges in connection with a work site incident that killed two of its employees last October.According...

They are preventable, yet still kill around 40 people every year. With all the rules to follow and guidance to help, there...

Three utility workers in the Florida Keys died this week after climbing into a manhole and being overcome by hydrogen sulfide and...

Vacuum excavation is the process of excavating and removing soil using high-powered vacuum suction, which transfers material to a debris tank. Water...