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Truck driver fatigue has been in the news recently because of the truck accident that seriously injured comedian Tracy Morgan on the New Jersey Turnpike 45 miles south of New York City. The trucker admitted that he had had no sleep for the 24 hours before the...
Statistics about work-related injuries and fatalities in New York City are available from a number of sources, including the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics and the New York State Department of Labor. What can we learn from this statistical...
It turns out that nearly half of the workers at New York City's food plants have been injured workplace accidents. The study, conducted by the Urban Justice Center's Community Development Project and released June 24, reported that 42 percent of workers who prepare...
About one year ago, New York City began its bike-share program. Many commentators predicted a traffic disaster, claiming that the rental bicycles would be ridden by tourists who did not know the city and residents who seldom rode bikes in the city's traffic. A Wall...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has citied five companies in the death of an Amazon employee in a warehouse in New Jersey. This happed one week after OSHA started investigating the death of a worker in another warehouse, this one in Carlisle,...
The work accident lawyers at Block O'Toole & Murphy are following a tragic workplace accident in which a hard-working 43 year-old family man was killed. Stephen Frosch, a 43 year-old sanitation worker, died in a horrible workplace fatality over the weekend....
The NYC construction accident lawyers at Block O'Toole & Murphy, LLP are following a frightening potentially tragic accident that occurred last Friday morning, June 20, 2014, at a construction site on East 57th Street in Manhattan. An exterior scaffold on a...
Tourism is a primary industry in New York City. However, it carries with it some dangers. Visitors are not familiar with traffic patterns and may step into traffic not realizing that a vehicle is coming. Tour buses ply the city, sometimes going into very narrow...
The New York lawyers at Block O'Toole & Murphy are following a developing story in Brooklyn. A worker was seriously injured after he fell into a 25 foot trench at a Whole Foods store site that was currently under construction. Emergency personnel were on the scene...
The New York Building Collapse Attorneys at Block O'Toole are following a developing story in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Earlier today a passerby was seriously injured after a building under construction in Bushwick partially collapsed. The incident occurred on...
