Construction

Two construction companies have been fined a combined $85,000 after several workers needed treatment for carbon monoxide exposure while finishing concrete in a parking garage on a Toronto building site.… …

Construction contractors are using wearable technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and drones to reduce risk on jobsites, and they are also paying closer attention to workers’ mental and emotional health, according… …

Two volunteers were killed and a worker was seriously injured in April 2025 when a house being lowered onto a new foundation in British Columbia shifted and collapsed on them,… …

A construction company that ended a labourer’s employment weeks after he raised safety concerns has failed to convince British Columbia’s Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal (WCAT) that it simply ran out… …

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A Quebec-based foundation repair company has been fined $75,000 after a worker was injured in an explosion while applying flammable adhesive at the bottom of a trench at an Ottawa… …

A young millwright apprentice died when a gate closed on him inside a hopper at a Bowmanville, Ont., cement plant, and the plant’s operator has now been fined $475,000 for… …

Students at a Fort Worth, Texas, elementary school have become the first safety ambassadors in a new program from Zachry Construction that aims to change how drivers behave around highway… …

An investigation into a September 2024 construction site incident has found that a lifting bracket was assembled incorrectly, causing a stack of formwork panels to fall and injure two workers.… …