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:: Thursday, July 29, 2004 ::
Demolition at fatal collapse site expected to start today By Jill Taylor, Palm Beach Post
Investigators with the Occupational Safety and Health and Administration and engineers hired by the developer, Harbour Communities, have been working at the site off Flora Avenue since the concrete and steel structure collapsed July 22. They need to take apart the wreckage for analysis.
A crew of 13 was pouring and smoothing concrete for the second-story walls and the third-floor deck of the building when the south end collapsed, taking most of the rest of the building with it.
Despite recent worker deaths, numbers down Palm Beach Post
Indeed, a Palm Beach Post analysis of workplace fatalities from 1992 through 2002 (the last year for which state and federal statistics are available) shows 408 workers died on the job in Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties. The death rates during those 11 years ranged from 0.54 deaths per 100,000 workers in Palm Beach County to 0.92 in St. Lucie County, higher than the state average of 0.48 deaths per 100,000 workers.
Meanwhile, OSHA and the Safety Council will begin offering 'Safety As a Second Language,' a course to help Spanish-speaking workers. About two-thirds of workers who die on the job are Hispanic, Santiago said, in part because immigrants are eager to take on dangerous jobs in construction and agriculture.
'They are exposing themselves to risks that others are not,' Santiago said.------------------------------------------- posted 6:11 AM :: reference link ::
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