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OSHA to employers: Deadline approaching for submitting Form 300A data

Washington — OSHA is reminding employers to submit their 2020 Form 300A data by March 2.

According to an agency press release, the time frame to submit the data has begun. Electronic submission of Form 300A, a yearly summary of injury and illnesses data, is required for establishments with 250 or more employees and those with 20 to 249 employees in certain high-hazard industries.

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All terrain installs sky bridge

Murray, Utah-based Wagstaff Crane Service used its 800t (900USt) Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 to install a sky bridge at the new Kathryn F. Kirk Center for Comprehensive Cancer Care and Women’s Cancers at Huntsman Cancer hospital.

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Truetimber Arborists sprouts play equipment offshoot using felled trees

In more than two decades at the helm of tree care and removal company Truetimber Arborists, Scott Turner has seen his share of trees felled with nowhere to go but the landfill. Now, he’s redoubled his effort to find a reuse for such trees with the launch of a spinoff that builds outdoor play equipment.

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Where to Find The 100-Ton Travel Lift

The 100-ton travel lift is classified as a heavy-duty crane and it comes with a pretty large loading capacity. You're also going so that you can make use of the high efficiency, reliable performance, various safety devices that provide significant amounts of protection as well as the lift is even crafted of anti-corrosive materials. These lifts can also be used for a series of different applications, so continue reading while we dive into the various advantages that come with the 100-ton travel lift.

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How Wood Shaped Human History, from spears to boats to books

Though wood still plays an important role in the construction of our homes — think two-by-four stud supports and plywood in walls, flooring and roofing — our eye most often falls on exteriors covered in synthetic materials like vinyl siding. Some playgrounds that once featured lots of wood now have our kids screaming atop molded plastic play sets. And thousands of readers will take in this review on a digital device, not on a sheet of paper made from dried wood pulp. In a world where wood is, if not absent, increasingly out of sight, British biologist Roland Ennos suggests we may not be paying enough attention to its importance. He contends that wood is not merely useful but central to human history. “It is the one material,” Ennos writes in “The Age of Wood,” “that has provided continuity in our long evolutionary and cultural story, from apes moving about the forest, through spear-throwing hunter-gatherers and ax-wielding farmers to roof-building carpenters and paper-reading scholars.”

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Chainsaw mastery: Artist carves tree into gigantic human hand

WALES, U.K. - British artist Simon O'Rourke has used a chainsaw to carve trees into just about everything - lions, angels, dragons, knights, dogs, Batman, gigantic human hands... he's done all of them.

His recent sculpture, titled the Giant Hand of Vyrnwy, measures 50 feet tall and was carved from what was formerly the tallest tree in Wales.

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Lifting Smarter

Recent years have seen new and exciting lifting technology come to the forefront with the completion of record-breaking and increasingly impressive heavy lift operations, both shoreside and at sea, expanding operator capabilities and improving efficiency.

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When millimetres count

By allowing the crane chassis to be driven from outside the cab, the new system offers the operator greater flexibility and improved visibility on job sites with limited space, such as the inside of an industrial facility. It also means the operator has a full view of the situation eliminating the need for a banksman.


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Spierings ships new e-Lift cranes

Spierings has shipped the first units of its new zero emission ‘e-Lift’ four axle seven tonne SK597-AT4 and six axle 10 tonne SK1265-AT6 self-erecting mobile tower cranes with the first units going to Dutch rental companies Schot Verticaal Transport and T Pater Kraanverhuur.

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US construction unemployment still below pre-pandemic levels

US construction employment in November remained below pre-pandemic levels in 35 states and the District of Columbia even though 31 states and D.C. added construction jobs from October to November, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of government employment data.

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Arborist brothers reclaim old wood, craft works of art

Call them the “tree whisperers”.

Brothers Brittain and Ethan Flowers and their cousin, Jerrin Flowers, are with True Cut Saw Works, LLC, and they’ve been working at an old home on Main Street, located between Dogwood Memories and Blackshear Presbyterian Church.

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