OSHA Extends and Updates Safety Initiative after 9 Fatalities in Communications Tower Industry

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has updated its directive on safety for employees working on communications towers after noting nine fatalities related to such projects in the current year. Those deaths appear to be a continuance of a trend, according to a Thursday press release from the administration. More employees died while working on communications towers in 2013 than in the previous two years combined. The directive, which outlines the proper methods of ensuring that workers are safely harnessed while working on such towers, extends its application from new towers to...