Let’s talk about safety: On average, about 220,000 people make emergency-room visits each year because of accidents involving ladders. More than 87,000 people are treated annually in emergency rooms ...

You can get those last few inches of string lights up without moving your ladder, right? Next thing you know, you're falling from roof height onto the cold, hard ground. Ouch. While people use ladders ...

Most ladder accidents happen in the fall when homeowners prep their gutters for winter and put holiday lights up (or both). Follow these extension ladder safety tips to avoid injury during outdoor ...

Falls from portable ladders (step, straight, combination, and extension) are one of the leading causes of occupational injuries and fatalities. The following are some quick tips from the Occupational ...

Werner has introduced a new telescoping extension ladder built to meet the needs of professional tradespeople working in compact or mobile environments. With a 300-pound duty rating and ANSI Type 1A ...

Developed by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), this mobile app is designed to increase safety when using extension ladders. The interactive app features a multimodal ...

Extension ladders allow you to reach up much higher than an ordinary step ladder. But, unlike step ladders, an extension ladder needs to lean against a surface in order to reach those heights. Here ...

This is the final part of a 12-part series on ladder safety tips. Today’s contractor-grade ladders are well-designed and sturdily built, so it’s not that product defects are causing so many people to ...