Spotlight On Construction Hazards During New York City Safety Week

Every year, the Federal Highway Administration marks one week in April as National Work Zone Awareness Week. This year, New York construction accident lawyers, construction safety groups and transportation officials are dedicating April 19th through April 23rd to...

A 59-year-old construction foreman, was laying down metal tracks when a wall collapsed on him early this morning in the Rosebank section of Staten Island. He was found unconscious and pronounced dead at the scene by EMS officials. Buildings Commissioner Robert...

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Newsday is reporting that two New York City crane operators have been fined $50,000 and have had their licenses suspended after a September accident that killed a construction worker. The city stated that Christopher Van Duyne and James Van Duyne cut a guardrail on a...

New York has had the worst of it, but collapsing cranes have caused catastrophic injuries all over the world in the recent global building boom.  The Associated Press reports that Dubai is the latest city to experience a collapsing crane.  Luckily, there...

WNYC.org has a two part series (found via Brownstoner.com) analyzing one such accident in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.  Jose Palacios, a Mexican immigrant, died when the scaffold beneath him collapsed at a luxury condo in Clinton Hill. He worked on a...

CNN has an article about construction industry gripes with all the new regulation that has resulted from the shocking number of crane accidents that have occurred in the last year.  If you dig into the article you will note that the Federal regulations have not...

The AFL-CIO Now Blog reports that Rev. Brian Jordan ran in the New York Marathon to honor the 19 construction workers killed on the job this year.  The staggering number of construction injuries this year highlights the importance of safety standards and training...