Equipment World Digital Magazine
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October 2014 | EquipmentWorld.com 10 reporter | continued A t 645 buyers, Texas stomped No. 2 Florida (317 buyers) in the number of fi nanced construction equipment buyers engaged in earthmoving through August. The numbers are the result of an analysis of Equipment Data Associates data segmenting out companies* likely to be engaged in earthmoving and which bought new equipment in the past eight months. The top 10 states in the number of buyers of new equipment in this segment were: 1. Texas, 645 companies 2. Florida, 317 3. Pennsylvania, 314 4. California, 276 5. New York, 237 6. Ohio, 225 7. North Carolina, 211 8. Minnesota, 198 9. Wisconsin, 172 10. (tie) Georgia and Illinois, 166 The same pattern continues when looking at earth- moving used equipment buyers, with Texas once again dominating at 570 buyers, followed by Florida at 229 and Pennsylvania at 216. Contractors who perform earthmoving bought 2,696 new excavators – or about 22.5 percent of the total number of new machines bought by this seg- ment during the fi rst eight months of the year. Other top new machines in the earthmoving segment include 1,783 compact track loaders (15 percent of total); 1,661 compact excavators (14 percent of total) and 1,036 wheel loaders (8.6 percent of total). I n response to a preliminary fatality report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that 796 construction workers died on the job in 2013 – the most of any industry – the Occupational Safety and Health Admin- istration has revised its rule on how quickly employers must report worker deaths or serious injuries. The revised rule, scheduled to take effect January 1, 2015, requires employers to notify OSHA within eight hours when a worker is killed on the job. The rule also requires employers to notify the agency within 24 hours when a worker is hospitalized, has an amputa- tion or loses an eye due to a work-related injury. OSHA previously required employers to report all workplace deaths but only required reports of in- patient hospitalizations when three or more employ- ees were involved. Reporting single hospitalizations, amputations or loss of an eye was not required under the old rule. OSHA plans to launch a page on its website for electronic reporting. For now, the page informs em- ployers how to submit a report via phone. – Wayne Grayson Texas construction fi rms buying most earthmoving equipment OSHA to speed up requirements on accident reporting *Editor's note: The earthmoving segment includes companies in 30 SIC codes determined to have earthmoving capability, buying a variety of earthmoving equipment, including dozers, excavators, wheel loaders, backhoes, skid steers, etc. Equipment Data Associates is a division of Randall-Reilly and tracks public Uniform Commer- cial Code-1 fi lings submitted by lenders in fi nanced equipment transactions.