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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued citations to three New York electrical contractors. The penalties could total as much as $465,410 for workplace safety violations at a Long Island construction site. The project is a five story...
The car accident attorneys at Block O'Toole & Murphy have chronicled many recent deadly car accidents that have occurred within the confines of New York City. While the frequency of these fatal collisions is still far too high, the N.Y.P.D. has taken an innovative...
When most people think about violence on New York City streets, they focus on muggings, robberies and other violent attacks. However, New Yorkers face other dangers when venturing onto the sidewalks - speeding cars. A guest editorial in the New York Daily News...
A recent Queens shoring accident illustrates the need for the safety requirements designed to prevent construction accidents in trenches and other excavations. Firefighters and other rescue personnel struggled for two hours to release a worker stuck in the mud in a...
The Brooklyn car accident attorneys at Block O'Toole & Murphy are following a study that shows that Brooklyn has the highest fatality rate for motor vehicle accidents in New York City. The study reveals that 79 Brooklyn residents were killed in crashes in 2011 and...
A discount bus service between Boston and New York's Chinatown was ordered to shut down recently after the US Department of Transportation found that the Lucky Star bus company's 21 buses did not meet federal safety standards. In addition to serious maintenance...
The National Transportation Safety Board has issued an "urgent safety recommendation" asking the railroad to start using a workplace safety device to protect employees working on the tracks. This recommendation comes less than three weeks after a Metro North train hit...
Even minor New York car accidents can lead to something worse for all involved, as illustrated by a recent Brooklyn incident. The driver of an SUV was arrested after he left the scene of an accident last Friday and crashed into an apartment building. The result: 16...
The personal injury trial lawyers at Block O'Toole & Murphy are pleased to announce that partners Stephen J. Murphy and David L. Scher will be appearing on hit New York radio station Z100 (100.3 fm) on Sunday, June 23, 2013 at 7am. The personal injury trial...
New York City construction sites remain unsafe, even under the worker safety laws that presently exist. But incredibly, efforts are still being made to weaken the current safety laws, with unproven claims that less legal protection for workers will yield more profits...
