The city Buildings Department is installing emergency protective sidewalk sheds in front of dozens of Big Apple structures with crumbling facades — and slapping their property owners with the bill.

Citations for violating scaffolding requirements consistently make it onto OSHA’s annual Top 10 list. The requirements are in ...

In 1977, five ironworkers fell to their deaths from improperly erected scaffolding on the construction site of a power plant in the Midwest. Donald, the site superintendent of the ironworkers, had ...

MINNEAPOLIS — After a Dakota ceremony set for Friday, a crew will begin dismantling the controversial sculpture “Scaffold” at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, and the artist who made it says he will ...

Roughly a third of all workplace fatalities in the construction industry stem from falls, with scaffolding-related incidents accounting for a substantial portio ...