Construction workers face high injury risk due to inherent trade dangers and physical demands. While workplace injury and death rates are declining, construction made up 20% of private-sector worker...
Read moreOregon’s OSHA Division to Increase Crane Inspections
In the wake of multiple deadly crane accidents across the country this year, Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health Division recently announced that, starting in September 2008, it will increase inspection of tower cranes at construction sites across Oregon (the inspections will not focus on mobile cranes).
Inspectors will assess, among other things:
- crane operator qualifications
- crane maintenance (manufacturer guidelines) and inspection records
- training records

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