World’s Tallest Wood Building Tops Out at 25 Stories in Milwaukee

Milwaukee, WI—New Land Enterprises held a topping out ceremony for its Ascent project, which at 25 stories is the tallest timber structure in the world. The residential project in downtown Milwaukee is built of spruce CLT (cross laminated timber) panels for floors and walls, and glulam for rafters beams and columns, most of them manufactured […]

Maxwell Flooring Fined for Injury at Unguarded Blade

Monticello, AR—The Department of Labor proposed Maxwell Hardwood Flooring be fined $204,797 after a knot saw operator lost part of his index finger when his hand came in contact with an unguarded rotating blade. That incident and five others, including a June 2021 laceration of a co-worker’s palm on a similar saw, led to an […]