By James L. Curtis, Kerry M. Mohan, and Craig B. Simonsen
Last October OSHA Administrator David Michaels had, stated that “we at OSHA are very concerned about the rising number of tower worker deaths. The fatality rate in this industry is extraordinarily high – tower workers are killed on the job at a rate
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By James L. Curtis and Craig B. Simonsen
In recent remarks by OSHA Administrator David Michaels at the “DOL-FCC Workshop on Tower Climber Safety and Injury Prevention,” Michaels indicated that “we at OSHA are very concerned about the rising number of tower worker deaths. The fatality rate in this industry is extraordinarily high – tower workers are killed on the
Continue Reading OSHA Prepares “Request for Information” to Prevent Communication Tower “Tragedies”
By James L. Curtis and Craig B. Simonsen
This week David Michaels, PhD, MPH, Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA, wrote a letter to the communication tower industry about the rise in falls from communication towers, indicating that “every single one of these tragedies was preventable.”
According to Michaels, the industry has experienced an “alarming increase in
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