/tags/construction-deaths Construction Deaths en-US Copyright Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:00:00 GMT /2024-04-19/nc-moves-closer-to-tighter-construction-safety-standards It’s been nearly a year since a fire devoured an apartment complex under construction in SouthPark and killed two workers. Now state fire officials are hoping new stricter rules designed to keep construction sites safer will prevent such a tragedy from happening again. Gavin Off wrote about it for the Charlotte Observer and joined us on Morning Edition to talk about his work. Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:00:00 GMT /2024-04-19/nc-moves-closer-to-tighter-construction-safety-standards Marshall Terry /news/2020-01-15/worker-dead-after-trench-collapses-in-triangle Rescuers have found the body of a construction worker who was trapped after a trench collapsed Wednesday in the Triangle. Wake County EMS said the worker… Wed, 15 Jan 2020 22:35:59 GMT /news/2020-01-15/worker-dead-after-trench-collapses-in-triangle Will Michaels, Associated Press /business-economy/2015-03-24/three-raleigh-construction-workers-fall-to-their-deaths There was a deadly construction accident Monday in Raleigh. A number of men were working on an 11-story building in a busy section of downtown when the… Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:49:30 GMT /business-economy/2015-03-24/three-raleigh-construction-workers-fall-to-their-deaths Leoneda Inge