Construction & Work Injuries

In the second fatal construction accident in New York in four days, a 32-year-old construction worker was tragically killed after he fell four stories from a scaffold on the sixth floor of a Queens building where he was working. The worker, who has been identified as...

At least one law enforcement officer was injured in an elevator collapse in Brooklyn on Monday, May 10, 2021. The freight elevator was holding approximately two dozen federal and local law enforcement officials. The accident occurred around 10:00 a.m., in a building...

A worker was killed in a terrible tragedy on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 when the trench he was working in collapsed, burying him under 10 feet of dirt. The unidentified worker, who was originally from Connecticut, had been working on a residential construction site at 648...

A construction worker was tragically killed on the job when the trench he was working in collapsed. The incident occurred in the Hudson Valley town of Woodbury, New York on Monday, March 22, 2021. The 43-year-old worker, who remains unidentified, was working on the...

Ironworker Kelly Gluchowski was seriously injured after she was electrocuted while working on a construction project on Saturday, March 13, 2021. The incident occurred at the Mineola station along the Long Island Rail Road, around 9:30 a.m. Gluchowski was standing on...

A woman was injured after a construction fence fell over and struck her in the head, leaving her stuck underneath a car. The incident occurred on Monday, March 1, 2021 just after 5:00 p.m., when an unidentified woman was walking past a six-story building on West 144th...

At around 8:30 am on February 26, 2021, a 52-year-old construction worker was tragically killed in a work site accident. The incident occurred at NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Center on East 41st Street, where the victim had been working on the 16th floor. He reported...

Tragedy was narrowly avoided on the evening of Sunday, Nov. 15, when a glass curtain wall panel fell 56 stories from a midtown building to the street below, shattering and scattering chunks of glass all over the street. Fortunately, no one below was injured. Police...

It was a scary scene in midtown Manhattan when two window washers plummeted 15 stories off a scaffold suspended from a crane on November 14, 2020. Two unidentified men were working outside the 50th floor at 30 Hudson Yards on West 33rd Street and 10th Avenue around 11...

A normal day at work was transformed into a life-or-death experience when two workers were left dangling from broken scaffolding at an office building in Lower Manhattan. The incident occurred at approximately 9:00 a.m. on Monday, October 5, 2020, at 250 Vesey St. As...