Dive Brief:
- Accidents at construction sites in Virginia and California took the lives of two workers on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.
- In Arlington, VA, Monday, police said an tracked excavator tipped over, perhaps because it was lifting something heavier than it could handle, and killed the 45-year-old man operating it at a residential project.
- At the San Diego airport Tuesday, a worker was killed by falling rebar at the site where a consolidated car-rental center is being built.
Dive Insight:
The California accident is uncomfortably reminiscent of an October fatality at Levi's Stadium, the NFL football 49ers new stadium in Santa Clara. A truck driver died when a load of rebar he was delivering came off his truck while he was next to it. Both of the accidents happened soon after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration called for voluntary stand-downs to talk about safety at sites nationwide.
