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| Title | Description |
| Adena Corp. | This construction employer is a general contractor with masonry crew employees who have experienced several incidents of back pain, symptoms of carpal tunnel and a back injury. The employer purchased two grout-delivery systems with the grant funds. The grout-delivery system eliminates the need to lift buckets. |
| Appelgren Construction | This employer provides commercial and industrial masonry services throughout northeast Ohio. Appelgren used a manually cranked self-contained adjustable scaffold. Cranking the scaffold with materials loaded was exhausting. The company reported injuries of pinched fingers, strained wrists and elbows. The company purchased fully automated, self-climbing hyudraulic platform scaffolding and extension components through the grant program. |
| Case Study 6074 | This construction employer installs and fabricates reinforcing bars. Reinforcing iron and rebar requires workers to set steel bars in forms that hold concrete, and then fasten the bars together by tying wire around them. |
| Case Study 6330 | This construction employer has recorded injuries from loading and unloading field construction equipment into service trucks. |
| D.C. Meyer Construction | This employer is a commercial masonry company who transports scaffolding units to and from construction sites throughout the year. Typical masonry operations use welded-tube frame scaffolding or manual-crank tower scaffolding. Both systems present a variety of safety risks. The company purchased hydro-mobile scaffolding to reduce risk factors associated with building, moving and cranking the scaffolding. |
| Jenkins Sign Company | This sign company designs and fabricates custom sign cabinets and faces. Examples of their work include road-side restaurant and gas station signs along with Time-N-Temperature signs seen outside many banks. Painting is a major step in the creation of any sign but it also often involves significant risks for Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTDs). To help reduce CTD risks a mobile work stand was added with the ability to hold two workers. This reduces the time required for painting, effectively decreasing the amount of repetition required per worker. In addition, a mobile aluminum platform ladder was also purchased. |
| Meade Construction | The construction company purchased an articulating boom lift. The boom lift allows the workers a better range of motion to perform their daily tasks. The boom lift eliminates the need for a ladder. Thus, it dramatically reduces the hazards/injuries in daily work activities, especially from falls. |