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The work accident lawyers at Block O'Toole & Murphy are following a tragic workplace accident in which a hard-working 43 year-old family man was killed. Stephen Frosch, a 43 year-old sanitation worker, died in a horrible workplace fatality over the weekend....
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has citied five companies in the death of an Amazon employee in a warehouse in New Jersey. This happed one week after OSHA started investigating the death of a worker in another warehouse, this one in Carlisle,...
The New York lawyers at Block O'Toole & Murphy are following a developing story in Brooklyn. A worker was seriously injured after he fell into a 25 foot trench at a Whole Foods store site that was currently under construction. Emergency personnel were on the scene...
The New York Building Collapse Attorneys at Block O'Toole are following a developing story in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Earlier today a passerby was seriously injured after a building under construction in Bushwick partially collapsed. The incident occurred on...
A previous blog post discussed steps that employers and workers can take to prevent forklift accidents such as the one that recently killed a worker in Brooklyn. This post outlines preventive measures involving nearby pedestrians, mechanical problems with equipment...
A Nassau County girl with Down Syndrome was killed by a hit-and-run driver early Sunday morning. She was attempting to cross the Hempstead Turnpike, a six-lane highway, possibly in an effort to visit her grandfather a few miles away in Hicksville. She was struck by a...
Forklift trucks are everywhere, from supermarkets to construction sites. However, a recent forklift accident that killed a worker in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn reminds us that these are dangerous machines that can cause injury or death . It is important to...
Authorities have released the name of the worker who was killed in a frightening crane accident in New Jersey. Jorge Giraldo, 50, was trapped inside the overturned crane in Newark Bay and drowned. Our hearts go out to his family and friends. The accident occurred last...
The attorneys at Block O'Toole & Murphy represent injured workers, which is no surprise to any of our followers. Too often during the heated discussions concerning New York's scaffold law, the rhetoric loses sight of the actual workers. In a recent article that...
Jose Duran, a 35 year-old married father to three children, was killed in a freak truck accident on the Cross Bronx Expressway early yesterday morning. Duran, a truck driver from Springfield, Massachusetts, was driving west on the Cross Bronx Expressway near the...
