Posted on 02/19/2019 11:03:04 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Dive Brief:
Three workers were injured Feb. 15 while working on the $2.3 billion, 21-mile I-4 Ultimate project in Orlando, Florida, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
The three individuals, all reportedly employees of general contractor SGL (Skanska, Granite and Lane) Constructors, sustained minor injuries when they fell 15 feet from an elevated platform while pouring concrete. Emergency responders told WFTV 9 that the trio fell after a section of formwork gave way. SGL Constructors told WFTV that work was halted temporarily at similar platforms along the project so that they could be inspected.
Construction on the I-4 project had restarted just four days earlier. It had been shut down since Feb. 4 after a 59-year-old worker was hit in the head by a 20-foot-long iron pipe and died. He was the fourth worker fatally injured while working on the project.
Dive Insight:
The first fatality on the I-4 project occurred in February 2016 when an SGL employee, 34-year-old Marvin Franklin, was run over by a dump truck filled with dirt. Then in December of that year, 59-year-old Curtis Copley, an employee of I-4 subcontractor Central Florida Underground, was killed when he was struck by a piece of steel equipment. In March 2018, Michael Tolman, 56, was killed when a rebar cage fell on him. Tolman was an employee of one of SGL’s subcontractors, Shelby Erectors.
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Omgosh.
Who the deuce is in charge of their Security/Safety Division and why hasn’t he or she been fired?
Crap!
sounds like some more folks need to be praying over their work place daily.
And staying off drugs.
Once in a great while I gotta drive on that section of DIE-4. What a mess!
One way to hide the illegal workers is to have your contractors use subcontractors who then use subcontractors who in turn use subcontractors......
The big cost is lack of coordination, communication and leadership that results in poor workmanship and decreased safety.
Homer Simpson.
I’ve been in construction all my life. Accidents don’t happen often but they do occur. It only takes a second of carelessness sometimes. A minor distraction can make a huge difference.
Construction contractors put up those “X number of days without out an accident” signs”.
This outfit needs to modify it to say without a fatality...
I was building a shed to house firewood off the back of our garage. Putting shingles on the low-pitched 6’ high roof, I stood up and stepped backwards...right off the roof. I was younger and rolled when I hit the ground. No injuries. I consider myself a safe worker, and very aware of my surroundings...but it was over quick!
I’m 60, worked on roofs my whole life. no problems. Last summer I fell off my garage roof. 4/12 pitch. Just stepped wrong and down I went. It happens fast.
Hah! It’s over in an instant!
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