Construction & Work Injuries

In a troubling incident on Friday, September 18, 2020, security guard Troy Evans died after falling six stories into an underground construction shaft. The incident was reported at around 2:00 p.m. at 1 Wall Street in Manhattan. The 55-year-old was inside the...

On Wednesday, July 1, 2020, residents in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn were shocked when a three-story building on the corner of Court and Union Streets suddenly collapsed around 4:30 p.m. Jacinto Salazar, 52, was left injured and debris littered the...

On Wednesday, June 24, 2020, three workers were injured--one critically--when several roof trusses collapsed in Jefferson County, New York. A truss is a collection of rafters or beams that supports a roof or other structure, forming a framework. According to State...

On Monday, June 15, 2020, three construction workers were injured on the job when the work platform they were standing on in an elevator shaft gave way, causing them to fall down the shaft from the fourth floor to the basement. The incident occurred around 8:00 a.m....

On the morning of Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 35-year-old worker Victor Pando was killed and his 26-year-old colleague injured when a fire extinguisher exploded at the Morgan General Mail Facility at 341 Ninth Avenue in Manhattan. The two men were injured by shrapnel...

On Monday morning, November 11, 2019, at least four construction workers were injured, one seriously, in a scaffolding collapse accident at 50 Hudson Yards in New York City. Police and FDNY responded to a call received around 7:30 a.m. about an incident in which four...

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...

In what the NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) is calling a "preventable tragedy," a construction worker and father of five named Segundo Huerta was killed in a building collapse accident that occurred in the Norwood section of the Bronx on Tuesday, August 27, 2019. In...

Two utility workers were killed in a mysterious electrocution accident while performing work which was supposed to be non-electrical in Orange County, New York on Monday, August 19, 2019.  The two workers, who have been identified as Derrick Paris, 51, and Justin...

A man named Samuel Charles Waisbren was killed in a tragic elevator accident at the Manhattan Promenade, a residential building located at 344 Third Ave. in Kips Bay, on Thursday, August 22, 2019. Disturbingly, it is being reported that the owners of this building...