SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Work is underway in San Francisco to remove a broken piece of equipment that caused a concrete slab to lean atop a high-rise under construction in the South of Market ...

A transfer slab is simply a thick reinforced concrete floor slab where a column sits on top of a slab but does not have a column immediately below. In other words, it bridges between supporting ...

The U.S. Department of Labor has found that Lindsay Precast Inc., a concrete manufacturing company, willfully exposed a worker to serious injury when a cement mixer turned on with a worker inside.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A workplace investigation reveals a temporary foreign worker had no training or qualifications when he was crushed to death by a ...

It had been a month since the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh’s East End collapsed, and the memory was fresh in the mind of Westmoreland County Public Works Director Greg McCloskey as he gathered his ...

NEW DELHI: The road transport and highways ministry has admitted design failures, weak quality assurance and over-reliance on highway builders as some of the factors for certain newly built highway ...