New York Personal Injury Attorneys BlogNYC construction safety report 2021 is a dark reminder of the multiple NYC construction workers fatalities that occurred last spring before the DOT organized a massive safety sweep and closed hundreds of dangerous sites
As spring is here and construction activities are booming in the city, the recent release of the NYC Department of Buildings Construction Safety report is a bleak reminder of the multiple fatalities that occurred on New York construction sites during the same season last year. After two workers fell to their death in February, two other hard hats died in April, one from electrocution and the other from a fall. Then in May, two workers were crushed by a falling elevator cabin and one of them died while the other one was critically injured. The same month two other workers fell to their death in Long Island City and Flatbush.
After this horrible spring, the DOT organized a giant sweet of almost all construction sites in NYC, sending to the field an army of investigators and shutting down any construction site where major safety violations were discovered. As a result fewer fatalities were reported during the remaining months of the year with two other worker falling to their death, one in Manhattan in September and one in Gowanus in November.
The reports also confirms that after a drop of activity related to the Covid19 lockdown, construction activity in NYC increased again in 2021. A total of 168,423 construction permits were issued in 2021 compared to 147,760 in 2020. Manhattan was the borough with the highest number of permits issued (63,320) however Queens came number one for new buildings filed with 573 applications, followed by Staten Island with 521 application. Brooklyn had the highest number of certificates of occupancy issued (2,053) followed by Queens (1,613).
