In a tragic turn of events, Mark Holder of Redwood, New York lost his life on April 20, after the wall of a ditch he was working in unexpectedly collapsed. Holder, 59, was installing an underground drainage line for a residential construction project managed by...
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Manhattan Worker Injured in Fall Down Hospital Chute
On the morning of April 24, at around 6:45 a.m., a construction worker was performing their job at an NYU Langone Hospital in Manhattan. According to the Daily News, the worker fell down a garbage chute from the upper levels of the building. Fortunately, he survived...
NYC Construction Deaths Reached a Three-Year High in 2022
According to an alarming new report from the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB), New York City's construction workers have suffered their highest death rate in three years. In 2022, eleven workers lost their lives in construction accidents across the city, a...
Westchester Crane Collapse Hospitalizes Two Workers
Around 12:30 p.m. on Friday, the construction site of a planned Amazon warehouse in Hawthorne, New York turned unexpectedly tragic after a crane collapsed, injuring two construction workers. News 12 Westchester reported that both people were hospitalized; one required...
Rebar Cage Tips on Queens Construction Site, Injures Workers
On Monday, contractors were working on the city’s third water tunnel at 46-01 37th Ave at 48th Street in Woodside, Queens, when disaster struck. As the laborers worked on Shaft 17B of the city-run construction site, a rebar cage suddenly tipped over; the incident...
Yonkers Roofing Contractor Falls Three Stories to His Death
A 51-year-old Spring Valley resident was working on a three-story home’s roof on Sunday afternoon when he suddenly fell 30 feet to the ground below. Tragically, the man did not survive the fall. The incident occurred at the 400 block of Park Hill Avenue in Yonkers,...
Worker Killed in Scaffolding Fall at Borough Park Job Site
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...
Bronx Construction Worker Struck and Killed by Digger
On Thursday morning in the Bronx, a construction worker was tragically killed on a job site. At 1861 Carter Ave near East 176th Street in Mount Hope, work ceased when an unidentified man was struck by a digger. Firefighters commented that the worker was pronounced...
Jeremy Rozan Killed in Fall From Queens Bridge
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...
NYC Construction Worker Rescued After Fall Down 25-Foot Hole
Traffic was brought to a standstill yesterday as firefighters worked to rescue a construction worker who fell into a 25-foot hole. The accident took place at a construction site at 83rd Street between Second and Third avenues on the Upper East Side. Here, a 32-story...
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