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A Brooklyn construction worker lost his life on Thursday in yet another tragic New York crane accident. Lungo Oleg, 36, was working to unload steel beams during the construction of a strip mall when he was crushed to death in Hudson Valley, New York. Oleg was working...
Causes of Construction Accidents To achieve and maintain worksite safety, employers need to understand the most common causes of construction accidents and how to prevent them. Otherwise, workers can be seriously injured or even killed in construction site accidents...
New York Crane Accident Prevention Guide Cranes are among the most powerful pieces of machinery on construction sites — and the most dangerous. They involve a potentially deadly combination of heavy loads, brute force and great heights. Accidents involving cranes,...
Fatal Construction Accidents Despite the many New York worker safety laws and regulations that are in place to protect workers, such as the Scaffold Law, construction workers in New York continue to die in on-the-job accidents in alarmingly high numbers. In New York...
Types of Construction Accidents Construction workers face some of the most dangerous workplace hazards in the entire country, across any occupation. Data compiled by the National Safety Council shows that there were 5,199 fatalities and 467,950 injuries in the...
Residents of the Jacob Riis housing complex narrowly escaped a frightening scene after a crane partially collapsed, sending part of the crane and heavy metal beams into the exterior of an apartment building, knocking air conditioners out of windows and shattering...
Construction worker Gregory Echevarria was tragically killed when a crane counterweight fell on him at around 3:15 a.m. on April 13, 2019. Echevarria, 34, was working to put up a crane at a construction site on 570 Broome Street in Lower Manhattan when the accident...
An overloaded boom truck crane collapsed after the excess weight it was carrying caused a pin to break, injuring the operator and shutting down 34th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues right outside of Penn Station on the night of Monday, March 18, 2019. Workers...
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...
A 41-year-old construction worker was seriously injured at a commercial construction site near 126th Street and 82nd Avenue in Kew Gardens, Queens earlier this month, as reported by New York Daily News. At around 10:20am on Wednesday April 5th, the cable attaching an...
