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It was a warm summer day in August of 2019 when 5-year-old Alysson Pinto-Chaumana went with her mother to visit a relative in Bushwick. Accompanied by a few friends, the mother and daughter had paused on an enclosed patio, waiting at the front door of a three-story...
At around 1:30 p.m. on December 28th, 2020, two workers were trapped under heavy debris after a 9-foot brick retaining wall collapsed in a residential backyard at 454 42nd Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. One worker was left in critical condition and another...
A construction worker named Jose Martins was killed after a wall in a building that was under construction collapsed and fell on him at a construction site near Rockaway Beach, Queens, on Tuesday, July 30, 2019. The fatal construction accident occurred at 190 Beach 67...
Tragedy struck Wednesday, September 12th when a retaining wall above a trench at a construction site collapsed, leaving one worker trapped under the debris. Despite extensive rescue efforts, the search had to be postponed due to rain before they were able to locate...
Wall and Roof CollapsesConstruction workers constantly face the hazard of wall and roof collapses when working on buildings at various levels of completion. Particularly when a building is unfinished, being renovated, or in need of demolition, wall and roof collapses...
Three days after the deadly collapse of a parking garage in Lower Manhattan, cleanup crews are still working to clear massive amounts of debris from the scene. Due to the extent of the damage, the cleanup process can reportedly take up to three weeks. The collapse,...
On Tuesday, April 18, 2023, the upper levels of a five-story parking garage in Lower Manhattan collapsed, tragically killing 59-year-old Willis Moore, the manager of the parking garage, and injuring at least five others. The parking garage, located at 57 Ann Street in...
Two workers were seriously injured in a construction site collapse on Friday, July 30, 2021. The incident occurred at 439 Lincoln Road in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood in Brooklyn, where a two-story building was to be demolished and turned into a...
A horrifying Midtown Manhattan construction accident left one worker killed and three hospitalized. At around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, 2020, a piece of parapet at 136 East 36th, a 12-story co-op building, came crashing down from the roof onto a suspended rig...
On the morning of October 21, 2019, two construction workers were injured, one fatally, after a wall collapsed at the Beth Hamedrash Hagodol synagogue on the Lower East Side. Officials from the Department of Buildings are investigating the incident. At around 10:00am,...
