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® August 4 2021 Vol. LXIII • No. 16
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Preserving Neville Island Bridge Trumbull Tackles ‘a Little Bit of Everything’ On Ohio River Crossing By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
Fallen Workers to Be Honored at NYS Fair…8
Crews Perform Heaviest Ever U.S. Bridge Lift…32
The Neville Island Bridge Preservation Project (SR 79-A61) continues west of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, Pa. The bridge is located in Neville Township, Robinson Township and Glenfield Borough and crosses the Ohio River and Neville Island. The project for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation includes structural steel repairs; full structure painting; bearing and deck joint replacements; deck repairs and overlays; bridge barrier repair; substructure concrete work; and drainage The project includes structural steel improvements. repairs, full structure painting; bearOther work also includes ing and deck joint replacements; deck concrete roadway reconrepairs and overlays; bridge barrier struction, guide rail replacerepair; substructure concrete work; see NEVILLE page 90
and drainage improvements.
Penn’s Landing I-95 Cap to Be Delayed Again…36
Table of Contents ................4 Paving Section..............45-61
Focusing On Hazard Communication Standards
Backhoes & Attachments Section ..........................65-77
By Lucy Perry
Business Calendar ..........110
The Department of Labor’s focus for the second half of 2021 will be on a laundry list of regulations that could directly impact contractors in the construction industry. Feeling the effects of a federal agenda that includes 26 OSHA regulations, the business
Auction Section ......116-124 Advertisers Index ............122
CEG CORRESPONDENT
of construction may look a lot different by next year. Packing the biggest punch for contractors are proposed amendments to the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS). OSHA’s goal is to conform to changes in the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS).
Potential Business Challenges OSHA also seeks to align certain hazard communication provisions with Canada and other U.S. agencies, and address issues that have developed since implementation of the 2012 standard, according to David Sparkman, logistics consultant, Washington, D.C. The standard applies to all employers that see OSHA page 76
