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ENR > Safety & Health > OSHA Issues Warning on Houses Built with Balloon-Frame Walls - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
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| The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a warning in November 2005 about the hazards and noted that its records show that balloon-frame walls have collapsed 22 times from 1999 to 2004, killing five workers and sending 16 others to the hospital with injuries. “They’re building bigger houses, and now it’s all two-by-six construction and it weighs a lot more than it ...
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