Daily News | Tower crane operators would get mandatory rest and bathroom breaks under a City Council bill
A crane operator asked City Council members to imagine themselves “stuck in this little four-by-six area for eight hours in which you have to urinate, defecate in bottles and buckets, eat in that space, and then carry your excrement to the ground with you.”
Councilmember Mark Squilla, who introduced the legislation with Councilmember Mike Driscoll, said the bill came about from his visits to construction sites and conversations with workers, who told him about staying up in the cranes all day. Speaking on behalf of the Building Industry Association of Philadelphia, Vaughan Buckley, chief executive officer of, said the association is “in full support of anything that enhances worker safety” but objects to the bill’s language requiring, instead of allowing, breaks.
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