State safety mandate little-know and less enforced By L.M. SIXEL
TEXAS has had a law on the books since 1989 requiring cranes to have insulators that prevent deaths from contact with power lines.
But those who should know about the device, which could have prevented some of the state's 30 construction-related electrocutions in the past three years, don't.
Accident kills worker By Matt Katz
Second man hurt as scaffolding falls at construction site
Each year, 50 people die and 4,500 more are injured in scaffold-related accidents, OSHA said. Workers being struck by falling objects was a primary cause of such accidents.