You’ve probably heard that it’s bad luck to walk under a ladder. Sometimes it’s even worse luck to climb a ladder. About 20% of fall injuries among workers involve ladders, according to the Centers ...

Multi-position ladders are great for anyone who needs one tool that can handle everything from indoor chores to outdoor projects, and this model converts into seven different configurations. At 34% ...

Bates College has developed Ladder Safety Guidelines to safeguard employees that perform work with portable ladders. These guidelines are intended to prevent ladder-related accidents and to promote ...

I’ve often thought the seven-year battle played out between the city of San Jose and a group of community advocates over an abandoned railroad trestle would make for a great public-policy case study ...

What is a good way to tell whether a department and/or company is operating efficiently? The answer: ladder placement. What is ladder placement? It’s the positioning of a ladder where it can be used ...

NEWBERG Ore. (KPTV) - A wooden train trestle caught fire early Sunday morning, but crews were able to prevent it from spreading to a nearby apartment complex, according to Tualatin Valley Fire & ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A fire on a wooden train trestle close to an apartment complex in Newberg prompted response from multiple emergency crews early Sunday morning. Just before 3 a.m., crews from ...

A Newberg train trestle went up in flames early Sunday and spread to nearby vegetation, encroaching on nearby apartment buildings. Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue said the fire broke out just before 3 a ...

A fire that broke out Monday morning near the South Block Apartments in Salem is being investigated as suspicious, according to the Salem Fire Department (SFD). SFD responded to the incident around ...

Salem Fire responded to a fire on the railroad tracks on the morning of June 16 next to the South Block Apartments south of downtown. The fire was reported at 8:19 a.m. A large black cloud of smoke ...