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On Monday, September 12, 2022, a Brooklyn construction worker lost his life in a tragic accident at a work site at 1 Java Street in Greenpoint. Around 9:00 a.m., 46-year-old Pape Khoule was crushed by a 2,000-pound piece of equipment that fell onto him. This incident...
Construction Safety Week runs during the first week of May each year. Since 2014, this initiative has been working to create a stronger, safer workplace. We would like to take the last day of this year’s awareness campaign to remind our community to stay safe on and...
Tragedy struck in Brooklyn Heights last week as a father of six lost his life. On February 11th, 56-year-old Angel Pilataxi was on-site at 124 Columbia Heights working on a building conversion project when just past 10:00 p.m., he fell from the eighth floor of the...
A frightening accident occurred at around 8:30 a.m. on Friday, December 10, 2021, when a window washer fell from the 12th floor of a high-rise building to a second-floor balcony below. He was sadly pronounced dead at the scene. The window washer, identified as Diego...
On the afternoon of October 30th, 2021, two construction workers were seriously injured in a scaffolding collapse at a Bronx work site. The two injured men were taken to Lincoln Hospital in critical condition. At around 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, the two workers, ages 29...
On Sepember 13th, 2021, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) shared the results of their “Zero Tolerance” campaign, a three-month long series of safety enforcement sweeps conducted at construction sites across the city. The campaign aimed at identifying...
On August 28th, 2021, 23-year-old Vincent Lucchese was fatally electrocuted while working at a commercial recycling plant in Staten Island. The incident is currently being investigated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). At approximately 1:40...
A construction worker was tragically killed on Thursday, May 27, 2021 when he fell from the roof of a building he was working on in Brooklyn. He was breaking apart a section of the roof when the floor collapsed under him. A bystander who saw the accident said that “he...
In the second fatal construction accident in New York in four days, a 32-year-old construction worker was tragically killed after he fell four stories from a scaffold on the sixth floor of a Queens building where he was working. The worker, who has been identified as...
A horrifying accident occurred the morning of May 19, 2021 when an elevator suddenly dropped four stories to the ground, killing a construction supervisor and seriously injuring another worker. The incident happened around 8:15 a.m. at 20 Bruckner Blvd. in Mott Haven....
