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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...
Medical Malpractice & Wrongful Death Medical malpractice can be one of the causes of wrongful death. It occurs when a patient is harmed in some way by a doctor or other medical professional who has made an error in the course of care or failed to perform their...
A construction worker named Jose Martins was killed after a wall in a building that was under construction collapsed and fell on him at a construction site near Rockaway Beach, Queens, on Tuesday, July 30, 2019. The fatal construction accident occurred at 190 Beach 67...
The holiday weekend turned tragic when Harry Ramnauth, a 67-year-old security guard, was killed after a 3,000-pound glass panel tipped over and fell on him.The accident occurred at the Central Park Tower, a skyscraper construction project which will be 1,550 feet tall...
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....
Machinery at a construction site malfunctioned and 43 year-old construction worker Paul Kennedy lost his life as a result.The fatal construction accident, which occurred at 61 Bond Street, between State and Schermerhorn Streets, right in the heart of Downtown...
As lawyers who fight for the rights of construction workers (BOM Attorneys), we have long been pointing to worker safety violations and characterizing them as "Civil Rights Issues.' Now a member of law enforcement is taking the rarely employed, but welcome, step of...
21 year-old Alex Santizo, a construction worker, fell to his death in a tragic Brooklyn construction accident. The accident occurred in the quiet Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park (pictured below). How did this fatal construction accident unfold? Santizo was...
Dominick Deluca, a construction worker from Dover, New Jersey, fell from scaffolding and plummeted to his death yesterday at a Bronx construction site. Deluca was working in a public housing development located on Webster Avenue in the Bronx. He fell from a 15-foot...
Less than four months into the year, 2015 has already been a deadly one for the construction industry. There have been at least seven deaths at construction sites this year, compared with eight in all of 2014. If the current trend continues throughout the year, it...
