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An electricians' trade journal reported on a recently released report from the organization Public Safety titled "Aim Higher: New York Should Reform its Workers' Compensation Laws to Reduce Injuries". Released on May 6, the report focused on the human and economic...
A recent Associated Press story revealed that some members of Congress have introduced a bill to improve safety for those working on and riding commuter railroads in the New York City area. Four Connecticut and New York representatives announced what one of them...
Last week we wrote a blog post on the recent workers' memorial, held on April 28. In today's post, we will examine the report that was released that day by the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH). Although that report focused on construction...
This blog has reported before on the difficulty of obtaining motor vehicle crash information from the New York Police Department. This changed last week when the NYPD announced a major upgrade to the accident data that publishes crash statistics daily, instead of...
The New York City lawyers at Block O'Toole & Murphy have been representing bus accident victims for decades. Today, they bring you a story of a fatal bus accident that occurred yesterday on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The details follow. An unidentified woman,...
Last week, we posted a blog about the derailment of a Manhattan-bound F train in a Queens subway tunnel. Four people were reported to have serious personal injuries; another 15 had scrapes and bruises. There were around 1,000 passengers on the express train of eight...
A man died last week at a fortune cookie factory at a Houston company that operates a similar bakery in Nashville, Tennessee and is based in Brooklyn, New York. He reportedly fell into a giant dough mixer and died of multiple blunt trauma injuries. The company, Wonton...
A man fleeing the scene of a hit-and-run accident in Brooklyn apparently caused a fatal accident as he sped away while police were questioning him. A nine-year-old from Queens died, and several more were injured. As the police were talking to the driver, the van sped...
A trade magazine, Real Estate Weekly, recently reported on Workers' Memorial Day, which occurred on April 28. An event sponsored by the New York Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) and the New York Central Labor Council, the day honored the memory of...
The Serious Personal Injury Attorneys at Block O'Toole & Murphy are following a harrowing subway train derailment that took place today in the Woodside section of Queens. Hundreds of commuters were evacuated from a Brooklyn-bound F train in Woodside, Queens today...
