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NY Route 347 Blooms Into Greenway Corridor By Mary Reed CEG CORRESPONDENT
JLG Ultra Boom Lifts on Site in NYC…30
Pa.-Based Viasant Hard at Work in Leeds, Ala. …32
The flowering of NY Route 347 into a greenway corridor has its roots in a county road passing through what was once farming country in Suffolk County, Long Island. Taken over in the mid 1960s by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), the road was renamed NY Route 347. Since that time, increasing urbanization along the highway has led to attendant congestion and related safety concerns. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced the commencement of the current phase in the transformation of Route 347 in June 2013. In his remarks on that occasion, he stated under New York State’s Drivers First initiative, construction would progress “in a way that provides the least hassle for drivers while getting the work done quickly and efficiently for our taxpayers.” Eileen Peters, public information officer of Region 10, NYSDOT, described the overall project as “Route 347 being transformed into a modified boulevard and suburban greenway for 15 miles through the three towns of Smithtown, Islip and Brookhaven to improve A LoDrill mounted to a Komatsu excavator is being used to auger holes in the earth see ROUTE page 110
to varying diameters and depths in order to install noise wall foundations within the tight constraints of the job.
OSHA Presents Rule for Reporting Severe Injuries Yancey Bros. Co. Celebrates 100 Years…46
Table of Contents ................4 Off-Road Trucks Section ........ ......................................73-89 Paving Section............91-109 Snow & Ice Section..123-125 Parts Section....................127 Auction Section ......132-145 Business Calendar ..........138 Advertisers Index ............146
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez. employers accountable for preventing them.” Occupational Safety and Health Administration “Workplace injuries and fatalities are absolutely Under the revised rule, employers will be announced a final rule requiring employers to preventable, and these new requirements will required to notify OSHA of work-related notify OSHA when an employee is killed on the help OSHA focus its resources and hold see OSHA page 136 job or suffers a work-related hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye. The rule, which also updates the list of employers partially exempt from OSHA record-keeping requirements, will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2015, for workplaces under federal OSHA jurisdiction. The announcement follows prelimA new report released Sept. 9 by the Association of Maryland — underscores both the growth in the inary results from the Bureau of Labor of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) highlights the C.E. industry over the last decade, along with the Statistics’ 2013 National Census of contributions of the construction equipment (C.E.) threats posed by diminishing government investFatal Occupational Injuries. industry to the American economy by supporting ment in infrastructure projects and eliminating sup“Today, the Bureau of Labor hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs and bil- port for manufacturing exports. Statistics reported that 4,405 workers lions in economic activity in its industry area. “The construction equipment industry conwere killed on the job in 2013. We can The report — authored by Inforum, an economtributes so much to our economy, and this report and must do more to keep America’s ic industry research organization at the University see AEM page 127 workers safe and healthy,” said U.S.
AEM Report Shows How Construction Equipment Drives U.S. Economy