Showerthought: 71 percent of crane deaths happen during routine lifts, and that number lives in my head now

Diana Hayes · 2026-10-03T02:15:04.144792+00:00

I pulled up the BLS crane fatality data after a toolbox talk in Houston last month and saw most deaths happen on ordinary lifts people have done a hundred times, not the big scary picks, so why do we still treat the easy ones like they don't need a second look?

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