Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net.
Our top story this week comes from Corpus Christi, Texas, where an airport worker was injured while climbing a communications tower for repairs. The tower collapsed, causing the man to fall...
Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net.
It is an understatement to say that this year has been tragic so far when so many tower climbers have died within the first quarter. In response, OSHA handed out stern...
Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net.
2014 is quickly becoming a tragic year for the tower industry. It is with a heavy heart we report that there have been two more tragic tower deaths this week. The...
Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net.
Theories regarding the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines 370 include one that could involve a cell tower. Some believe the plane took an alternate route, one that would have passed over a...
Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net.
Help a fallen climber
We lead this week's cell tower news with a plea to help a climber in need. Tommy Jeglum fell 50 feet from a tower last June and managed...
Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net.
Last week two of the biggest events in the world of telecom happened simultaneously: Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, and NATE UNITE in San Diego, California. As such, there's plenty...
The emphasis was on safety at the National Association of Tower Erectors 2014 conference in San Diego this week, with a new education campaign that comes with the knowledge that the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is watching closely to see if the...
Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net.
This week's update will be short and sweet since the industry is focused on all the happenings at NATE Unite and Mobile World Congress, so expect a lengthier update next week.
When...
The steady clank--clank of metal Y-lanyards clips being fastened to a telecom tower punctuate each few steps as Brian Bourquin climbs. He reaches a point two-thirds of the way up, anchors himself with his positioning strap, and tests the sturdiness of his positioning rope before trusting it...
The steady clank--clank of metal Y-lanyards clips being fastened to a telecom tower punctuate each few steps as Brian Bourquin climbs. He reaches a point two-thirds of the way up, anchors himself with his positioning strap, and tests the sturdiness of his tie-off before trusting...
An industry safety task force is kicking off an education campaign this week aimed at increasing the safety of tower climbers by urging them to tie-off 100% of the time.
Todd Schlekeway, executive director of the National Association of Tower Electors, called the campaign “an extremely high...
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Ever since the fatalities a few weeks back, the tower industry has been very quiet. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) used the radio silence to write an open...
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sent a stern warning to telecom employers in the wake of three recent tower-related deaths, and is working with the National Association of Tower Erectors (NATE) and other industry stakeholders to educate communication tower employers about their responsibility to...
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The tower tragedy in West Virginia we reported on last week that led to 3 deaths had something of a precedent for multiple parties involved. The towers are owned by...
It is with a heavy heart we bring you this week's cell tower news. It was a devastating weekend, with two tower tragedies in different parts of the country that claimed a total of four lives.
The first was in Clarksburg, W.Va., where two towers...
Welcome to our weekly collection of all the top cell tower news stories, where we cover global, national, regional, local and distributed antenna system news.
Super Bowl Sunday is less than a week away, so it's hard for sports fans to think of anything else,...
Welcome to our weekly collection of all the top cell tower news stories, where we cover global, national, regional, local and distributed antenna system news. Crown Castle continues to make headlines with tower purchases, this time from CPS Energy. CPS Energy's tower sale is...
Welcome to our weekly collection of all the top cell tower news stories, where we cover global, national, regional, local and distributed antenna system stories. While hoopla surrounding the "polar vortex" may have subsided, we're still in the dead of winter in many parts...
With most of the country just recovered from a polar vortex, and two Alberta clippers forecast to bring cold and snow to much of the Midwest and East Coast this week, tower climbers face chilly and dangerous conditions during winter tower work.
The experts at...
Welcome to our weekly collection of all the top cell tower news stories, where we cover global, national, regional, local and distributed antenna system stories. It's the first full week back to work of the new year and it seems that news is happening...
Happy New Year and welcome to the first 2014 edition of cell tower news. We cover top-level industry stories, DAS and regional/local news. Things might be a little slower due to the holidays, but that hasn't stopped Inside Tower from giving a helpful list...
Welcome to this Christmas week edition of cell tower news. We cover top-level industry stories, DAS and regional/local news. After reporting so many climber accidents and deaths this year, it's exciting to be able to share the great news of a climber who fell...
Welcome to the weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of cell tower companies. We cover top-level industry stories, DAS, and regional/local news.
Cell tower radiation: it's a topic that has concerned communities for as long as towers have existed. It even shapes debates on...
Welcome to the weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of cell tower companies. We cover top-level industry stories, DAS, and regional/local news. This week's news brings the sad news of the loss of another tower climber recently in Wichita.
In addition to this, we've...
