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A 30 year old construction worker died after falling from scaffolding in Manhattan, the second hard hat killed this week on a New York City Construction Site

Another construction worker died in New York yesterday. 30 year old Juan Cerezo was doing facade work on a scaffold on the 14th floor when he fell and landed on the sidewalk shed. The fatal accident happened on the Upper East Side of Manhattan at 363 East 76th Street around 4:00 pm…

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The American Journal of Industrial Medicine published a special issue dedicated to the prevention of construction accidents

Among all industry sectors in the U.S.,  construction has the highest number of fatal injuries with  more than 800 construction workers dying every year.  A  lot of  research has been done and written on construction safety and health but the challenge is to ensure that  promising research findings become safer practices…

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3 construction workers were seriously injured after one of them lit a match while checking for gas and sparked a major explosion at New York City High School

A construction worker was critically injured and two others suffered serious personal injury in a gas explosion that rocked the walls of the science lab at John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx, NYC. 36 year Luigi Barillaro, 38 year old James Intriago and 53 year old Charles Marullo, were all working…

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A worker died in an elevator accident at a New York construction site

A construction worker died after he fell down an elevator shaft in New York. The accident happened yesterday at the beginning of the afternoon at the construction site of a future hotel located at 577 9th Avenue near 41st Street in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. According to DNA Info the construction worker…

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Two New York construction managers have been indicted on charges of criminally negligent homicide, manslaughter and reckless endangerment after a construction worker was crushed to death by a collapsing wall on their construction site

Last April, 22 year old Carlos Moncayo died in a construction accident in New York because two construction managers put profit over safety.  According to the NY Daily News, on April 6th, Christian Ofusu, an independent engineer assigned to oversee the work on a Ninth Ave site in the Meatpacking…

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A construction worker suffered serious personal injury after falling from the second floor of a construction site in Hudson Yards, Manhattan

A worker was seriously injured in a construction accident in New York yesterday afternoon. The worker fell from the second floor of  a future 62-story building located at 435 W. 31st St in Hudson Yards on the west side of Manhattan.  He was taken to the hospital in serious condition.…

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A construction worker suffered personal injury after an AC unit fell on him in Brooklyn, NYC

A worker was injured in a construction accident Friday in New York City. The accident happened at the Red Hook East Houses on Henry Street in Brooklyn, NYC. The worker was standing on scaffolding on the second floor when an AC Unit fell on him. The cooling unit was being removed…

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Tips for outdoor construction workers to prevent injury and death related to heat

During the summer, outdoor construction workers such as those raking asphalt or sweating pipes can suffer from personal injury such as dizziness, discomfort and the fogging of safety glass and put themselves and others at risk of accidents. In some cases heat exhaustion can even lead to death. According to…

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Our partner, New York Construction Accident Lawyer Howard Hershenhorn, who is representing the family of a worker who fell to his death from an elevator that was powered by an unsafe electrical system told the NY Daily News that “the findings indicate the 25-year-old man’s death should never have occurred”

Christian Genesi, a 25 year old construction worker, fell 24 stories to his death at the beginning of May  as he was riding a temporary hoist to get to the top of a hotel that was being built on 8th Ave.  The city building inspectors who have been investigating the case…

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10 people injured in a Crane a Accident in Midtown New York

Two construction workers as well as several pedestrians and car passengers suffered personal injury in a crane accident in New York yesterday morning. The crane was hauling an air conditioning unit of the size of a shipping container to the top floor of a 30-story building at 261 Madison Avenue, N.Y.C. when a rigging…

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