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Jun
Is Construction Machinery Dangerous?
In the year 2015, across the United States, 937 construction workers died on the job. And in the years 2007 through 2014, an average of twenty construction workers were killed in accidents at construction sites each year in New York City. Thousands more are disabled or seriously...
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17
Jun
Electrical Injuries On Construction Sites
If you’ve worked in construction for any length of time, you already know about the danger that electricity poses to construction workers. What are the statistics on construction-related electrical injuries and deaths? What is the risk to construction workers in New York? If a cons...
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Jun
City Council Passes Revised Construction Safety Bill
Manuel Colorado, 36, lost his balance doing construction work in Brooklyn and fell 19 feet to his death. Only days later, 58-year-old Gurmeet Singh died after falling eight stories off a scaffold in Manhattan, and twelve days after that, Lukasz Stolarski, who was 31, died when he...
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Jun
Does New York City Care About The Safety Of Construction Sites?
Is the New York City Council putting special interests ahead of the safety of New York City’s construction workers? That is the opinion of the editorial writers at the New York Post regarding an acrimonious construction safety proposal that has publicly opened up verbal hostility...
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Jun
Can a Third Party Be Liable For a Construction Accident?
According to the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, across the United States in July 2017, more than 6. 8 million workers were employed in the construction industry. Construction is dangerous. In fact, more job-related deaths happen in construction than in any other line of work in...
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17
Jun
What Makes a Falling Object Dangerous?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 10% of all construction accidents are caused by falling objects. Construction workers, as well as pedestrians, can often fall victim to these accidents by simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In a large metropolis like Ne...
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Jun
Another Construction Worker Death From Contractor Negligence
Our NYC personal injury law firm has learned that another construction worker has fallen victim to a contractor’s negligence in New York City. Roger Vail, 62, fell more than 10 stories to his death while working at 400 W. 33rd Street. He was doing a survey on the 16th floor of a...
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Jun
How To Determine Fault In A New York Construction Accident
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration reports that more than four thousand working people in the private sector died on the job in the U. S. in 2015. Fatalities among construction workers accounted for 937 of those on-the-job deaths – more than one in five. Also each yea...
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Jun
On the Job Eye Injuries or Loss of Vision
The eyeball is a very sensitive part of the body, which makes it more susceptible to injury. A few of these physical injuries are so serious they can even lead to the loss of vision. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has reported that physical damage to the...
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Jun
Slip and Fall Injuries and Their Effects
A slip and fall accident occurs when an unknowing victim falls down because another person negligently allowed a dangerous condition to exist. A common example of a slip and fall case is when someone falls on a wet or slippery surface because a business fails to put up a “wet flo...
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