The Hyundai 38LC-9A Excavator features an Interim Tier 4 engine and has an operating weight of 86,200 lb. It boasts a bucket breakout force of 49,300 lb-ft and a maximum digging depth of 27 ft. The ...

We all know the importance of protecting an employee working at heights; we routinely use PPE such as full body harnesses, self-retracting lifelines (SRLs) and lanyards for fall protection to prevent ...

You probably didn’t know that on more than one occasion, a UFO has been spotted lurking around a scaffold. Or, perhaps an UAP, that is an Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon, as the government likes to ...

For all objects at height – including humans – the focus always should be on preventing things from falling rather than on catching objects, or on limiting the damage after they fall. Dropped objects ...

Any company with personnel who work at heights must have a fall protection plan to be in compliance with the new ANSI Z359.2 standard. The recently approved ANSI Z359.2 standard, “Minimum Requirements ...

29CFR 1926 Subpart M provides the requirements for fall protection. Section 1926.502 is the meat of Subpart M. It runs for several pages and covers 11 topics. Now we’ll look at the last two topics in ...

Upper Great Plains lineman Shayne Bender demonstrates how to use a buck hook with a self-retracting lanyard to ascend a steel lattice tower at fall protection training in Mead substation. When the ...