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2009 Safety Watch

Each month, Total Landscape Care examines an accident and how it could have been avoided. The bilingual articles also share tips for landscapers and their crews on how to prevent future articles and follow safe practices. This issue is a compilation of the 2009 Safety Watch articles. Download Issue

October 22, 2013

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2010 Safety Watch

Each month, Total Landscape Care examines an accident and how it could have been avoided. The bilingual articles also share tips for landscapers and their crews on how to prevent future articles and follow safe practices. This issue is a compilation of the 2010 Safety Watch articles. Download Issue

October 22, 2013

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2011 Safety Watch

Each month, Total Landscape Care examines an accident and how it could have been avoided. The bilingual articles also share tips for landscapers and their crews on how to prevent future articles and follow safe practices. This issue is a compilation of the 2011 Safety Watch articles.   Download Issue

October 22, 2013

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2012 Safety Watch

Each month, Total Landscape Care examines an accident and how it could have been avoided. The bilingual articles also share tips for landscapers and their crews on how to prevent future articles and follow safe practices. This issue is a compilation of the 2012 Safety Watch articles. Download Issue

October 21, 2013

Safety

Safety watch: Avoid danger in the trenches

Learn how to keep an excavator bucket from turning into a deadly weapon.

October 2, 2013

Safety

Mowing After Hours Could Be Costly

Following the proper mowing guidelines on a jobsite could be the difference in life or death for crewmembers.

September 6, 2013

Safety

Safety watch: Balancing a heavy load

The accident: A 45-year-old landscape crewmember is operating a tractor equipped with a front and rear bucket. He fills the bucket with dirt and lifts it 6 feet above the ground.

August 7, 2013

Safety

Stay Cool This Summer

The accident: A 33-year-old landscaper is mowing grass on his second day of the job in Houston, Texas, when temperatures reach 101 degrees. While mowing, his coworkers see him collapse, and they call 911. He is rushed to the hospital where his body temperature is 108 degrees.

July 4, 2013

Business

Take Head Trauma Seriously

One New Jersey employee at a landscaping company has died after a large tree limb fell on his head on a job site. Authorities said the 40-year-old man was working under a 130-foot tree at a Princeton residence when the tree limb fell, according to NBC40.

June 26, 2013

Business

Safety watch: Unsteady ground

How to prevent cave-ins while digging. The accident: A 29-year-old landscape worker and four other laborers are hand digging a 2-foot wide by 16-foot long trench on a private residence to investigate water infiltration.

June 7, 2013

Design-Build

Are You Covered?

Trying to recover from a near-death — or at least possibly painful — experience was not exactly how I planned to spend my wedding anniversary with my husband. But there we stood, staring at what used to be our deck railing, as we caught our balance. While leaning against the side of our deck, the […]

May 23, 2013

Safety

Safety watch: Avoid eye injuries

Wearing the right personal protective equipment can reduce jobsite injuries. Find out more here at Total Landscape Care!

May 17, 2013