Construction Accidents

Even as the New York Department of Buildings has been boasting of an improved safety record, and a drop in the number of construction accidents, there has been a series of incidents in the sector recently. One such incident involved a scaffolding collapse in Queens....

Every year, more than 10,000 construction workers suffer eye injuries that are so bad that they require workers to be hospitalized and miss days off work. Construction workers are particularly susceptible to eye injury hazards, and many of these are preventable. Many...

A worker was killed in a trench collapse accident that occurred at a New York City construction site recently. According to reports, the worker suffered serious injuries when he was buried by a collapsing wall in the trench. He was rushed to the hospital, but was...

Investigations have found several defects in a crane that was involved in a deadly construction accident at a Manhattan site earlier this month. The accident occurred when the upper section of the plane broke off, and fell. The accident killed a worker from New...

The year 2011 had both good and bad news for New York construction accident lawyers. The good news was that there was an 18% drop in construction accidents across New York City between 2010 and 2011. The bad news was that this decline did not exactly translate into a...

According to new research, the recession may have contributed to a decline in the number of orthopedic injuries in the construction workforce. The findings of the study were presented at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons annual conference in San Francisco...

A New York court has dismissed the idea that state rules that are meant to protect the public are preempted by federal rules committed to protecting workers. The decision came in a claim that had been filed by the Steel Institute of New York. The Steel Institute of...

The New York Department of Buildings is likely to issue citations to a demolition contractor after scaffolding at a site collapsed on a bus, injuring at least 17 people. The accident occurred in Harlem, when the city bus was stopped in front of a building with...

A New York construction worker was killed in an accident caused when a Metropolitan Transit Authority struck the lift that he was standing on, causing him to plummet to the ground. The worker was standing on the lift at a construction site, and the Metropolitan...

A forty-six-year-old worker was killed last week in an accident involving a piece of machinery on a construction site in New York. The accident happened at a railroad bed in Port Kent, close to Plattsburgh. The man was an employee of Trenches Technologies of New...