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On Thursday, December 15, 2022, yet another construction worker fell to his death -- this time outside of a building in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn. Shortly after 1:00 p.m., the worker, in his 50s, fell from scaffolding on the third floor of the building on...
A Queens construction worker was tragically killed on the morning of November 1, 2022. At around 10:20am, the 34-year-old worker identified as Jeremy Rozan was reported to have fallen from Roosevelt Ave. Bridge and landed on the Van Wyck Expressway. He was then hit by...
Tragedy struck in Brooklyn Heights last week as a father of six lost his life. On February 11th, 56-year-old Angel Pilataxi was on-site at 124 Columbia Heights working on a building conversion project when just past 10:00 p.m., he fell from the eighth floor of the...
New York Construction Accident Resources You Have Rights As a construction worker, you are legally entitled to a safe workplace. Although construction has its risks, you should never feel forced to work in an environment in which you feel unsafe or know there are...
Fatal Construction Accidents Despite the many New York worker safety laws and regulations that are in place to protect workers, such as the Scaffold Law, construction workers in New York continue to die in on-the-job accidents in alarmingly high numbers. In New York...
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...
A Long Island worker suffered a head injury after a serious and appalling accident at a Searingtown construction site on Friday, May 8, 2020. According to Nassau County police, the unidentified man, who is 36 years of age, was working at 60 Shelter Rock Road when he...
In April 2015, Carlos Moncayo, a 22-year-old Queens resident, went to work at a construction site on Ninth Avenue, in the Meatpacking District. That day, he never came home. Tragically, he was buried alive when a 14-foot trench that had not been shored up collapsed....
In an accident that received nearly zero media coverage at the time it occurred, construction worker Carlos Olmedo Lala died in a scaffold fall on a construction site in Harlem on June 22, 2019. Altogether, at least fifteen safety violations have been issued to four...
Construction worker Gregory Echevarria was tragically killed when a crane counterweight fell on him at around 3:15 a.m. on April 13, 2019. Echevarria, 34, was working to put up a crane at a construction site on 570 Broome Street in Lower Manhattan when the accident...
