For a highway construction worker, focusing on the job is easier when someone is watching your back. On many roads, that person is the flagger, whose stop/slow sign helps maintain a peaceful, safe ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — The diamond-shaped orange caution signs as you approach them still show a silhouette of a human worker holding a flag, and maybe they always will. But increasingly, the ...

A flagger for a construction company was struck by a vehicle in Oxford on Tuesday morning and was taken to the hospital. State police said the flagger was struck around 8:13 a.m. in the area of Route ...

Q: It is pretty obvious that when a flagger puts up a stop or slow-down sign, we are expected, if not required, to obey. Is this based on some Pennsylvania statute, or is it merely customary? More ...

RIPPON, W.Va. — Kathy Ruth was killed while performing flagging operations at a work zone near near the Jefferson County community of Rippon on April 4, 2024. The motorist responsible was convicted of ...

MANOR TOWNSHIP. POLICE SAY THE FEMALE FLAGGER WAS WORKING ON STONE MILL ROAD AND PLYMOUTH ROAD, DIRECTING TRAFFIC FOR A WATER LINE PROJECT AROUND 740 IN THE MORNING. THAT’S WHEN SHE WAS STRUCK AND ...

For traffic flaggers on road-construction sites, losing your job to a machine is better than losing your life. Tuesday, the state Department of Transportation (DOT) began testing an automated flagging ...

A flagger holds traffic so a truck can get by in a road contruction zone. With the massive amount of reconstruction that B.C.'s highway system is facing, flaggers are going to be on the receiving end ...