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New York Painter Accident LawyerFighting for Maximum Compensation for Injured Workers The nature of a painter's job often requires him or her to work on scaffolds and ladders at significant heights. This fact alone leads to an increased risk of falling. When the...
Construction Accident Case Results Top Verdicts and Settlements for Injured Workers in New York The construction accident attorneys at Block O'Toole & Murphy have recovered landmark verdicts and settlements, including $110 million and $53.5 million jury verdicts...
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...
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...
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...
Scaffold Collapse: Causes and Legal Next Steps in New York Accidents related to scaffolding continue to cause serious harm year after year. According to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), scaffolding accidents are linked to an average of 50...
On June 22, 2023, shortly after 9:00 a.m., a construction worker fell approximately 30 feet at a construction site on Broome Street in Lower Manhattan. The worker then became stuck in a confined space between two buildings and was thankfully rescued by FDNY members...
$1,900,000 Settlement for Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 1 Journeyman Injured at Manhattan Construction Site Our client, a 34-year-old mason, was working on a construction project to install new exterior brick to various portions of buildings owned by a...
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...
