Out of This Year's Deadly Accidents, A Critical Mass Is Building.

The article focuses on the call for tighter crane oversight amid the increasing number of fatal crane accidents in the U.S. and around the world. Studies reveal that a very small percentage of tower cranes are involved in deadly U.S. accidents, only about 5 percent. But a crane accident in New York City in 2008 made people in the construction industry realize the hazards being faced by hundreds of thousands of workers on the jobsite.