Construction & Work Injuries

By December 1st of 2018, New York City construction workers and supervisors will be required to have logged an additional 40 and 62 hours of safety training respectively to comply with the recently passed bill known as Local Law 196. Employers need to provide this...

Tragedy occurred at a Staten Island construction site last Friday, August 10, 2018.50-year-old Carlos Gabrielli from Linden, New Jersey and other crew members were working to install sewers at a construction site in Westerleigh, Staten Island.At around 11:26am,...

1An MTA worker fell to his death on the early morning of Tuesday, March 20 after a protective wooden railing broke while he leaned on it. St. Clair Zaire Stephens Richards, 23, was only six months on the job when co-workers heard a shout and saw their co-worker lying...

Countless hazards exist in the construction industry, but the biggest, by far, is gravity. Falls accounted for nearly half of all construction injuries - and more than one-third of fatalities - in both 2015 and 2016, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)....

A construction worker in Jamaica, Queens was crushed to death by a forklift on a construction site which was under an active Stop Work Order (SWO) due to multiple safety violations. Edgar Pazmino, a 34-year-old immigrant from Ecuador, was standing on the back of a...

Tuesday January 23rd marks a somber beginning to the week. At around 8:50am, Ju Cong Wu, 33-year-old worker who was installing an elevator car at 111 East 24th Street, fell nine stories to the bottom of the shaft and was fatally injured. EMS arrived at the...

As we enter the new year, construction safety continues to be a priority for New York City officials, and rightly so. Two major changes to the city code will have a big effect on the industry. One aims to reduce accidents by imposing heightened training requirements....

2017 was another busy year in New York City's seemingly never-ending construction boom. Cranes and scaffolding continue to decorate our city's landscape, and the sounds of construction continue to fill the air. As we have written about frequently, construction...

Tragically, a worker died last week as a result of a fall from a two-story home on 50th Ave., near 94th St. in Corona, Queens, as reported by the New York Daily News.At around 11:50am on October 18th, the 60-year-old worker, whose name has not yet been released, was...

After the sad deaths of 2 construction workers in New York City, Assemblyman Francisco Moya is pressing lawmakers to pass a construction safety law. The proposed bill is called "Carlos' Law". It is named after deceased construction worker Carlos Moncayo, who died in a...