Roy, a 47-year-old father of two, was on a caged ladder on a distillation column when he suffered a heart attack. He fell backwards off the ladder, plummeted roughly 30 feet, and died from a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A worker wearing safety equipment as he climbs an industrial emergency ladder. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety ...

Employers may get a reprieve from a deadline that will require them to install additional safety systems on certain ladders on their worksites within 10 years. A new ...

When you take one step forward on a ladder, don’t take two steps backward—or worse. Ladder falls can occur in a fraction of a second. Following the proper procedures for safe ladder usage is well ...

The local authority is replacing them to meet modern regulations ...