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Last week, an unidentified construction worker employed was performing carpentry work on the twelfth floor of the new JPMorgan Chase headquarters at 270 Park Avenue. Witnesses recalled that as he was working, the man suddenly lost his balance and fell through an open...
Important Next Steps After a Ladder Fall In 2020 alone, 22,710 workers were injured by ladder falls, in professions spanning from maintenance work to teaching. Ladder fatalities continue to be an issue, with a steady number of injuries happening each year in every...
Struck-By Accidents Struck-by accidents are a tragically common occurrence in the workplace. Swinging, falling, flying, and rolling objects pose a serious danger to those working on construction sites. Despite their frequency and severity, accidents such as these are...
Falling Debris Accidents Employers have a responsibility to protect the safety and health of those who work for them and the public. Under New York law, construction site owners and contractors may be held responsible for workers injured by falling debris and other...
Around 6:00 am on Saturday, a fatal collision occurred in upstate New York involving a box truck and an express bus. The 2013 express bus, affiliated with central New York solar energy company LBFNY, was carrying 15 passengers as it made its way down Highway 37, just...
A 51-year-old Spring Valley resident was working on a three-story home’s roof on Sunday afternoon when he suddenly fell 30 feet to the ground below. Tragically, the man did not survive the fall. The incident occurred at the 400 block of Park Hill Avenue in Yonkers,...
Early Tuesday morning, a construction worker plunged fifteen feet to the bottom of a deep trench on a construction site located on East 20th Street. The man was working inside a pit completing waterproofing work when he suddenly slipped and tumbled off the ladder he...
On Thursday, December 15, 2022, yet another construction worker fell to his death -- this time outside of a building in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn. Shortly after 1:00 p.m., the worker, in his 50s, fell from scaffolding on the third floor of the building on...
A construction worker tragically fell from scaffolding to his death at an Upper West Side apartment building on the morning of November 28, 2022. The 36-year-old worker was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. The accident reportedly occurred around...
A Queens construction worker was tragically killed on the morning of November 1, 2022. At around 10:20am, the 34-year-old worker identified as Jeremy Rozan was reported to have fallen from Roosevelt Ave. Bridge and landed on the Van Wyck Expressway. He was then hit by...
