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As New York City basks in the light of a financially healthy construction market, the cries for safety are increasing at an equal pace. The recent death of a 43-year-old construction worker at a Brooklyn hotel site has kept the issue viable for the building trades and...
New York, New York - During a windy morning on February 5, 2016, a crawler crane, stretched nearly 600 feet in the air, fell to the ground in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca, tragically killing 38-year-old David Wichs on his way to work. The crane...
In our last post, we looked briefly at a recent construction accident at the site of a Brooklyn hotel project. As we noted, the exact cause of the accident is still being determined, but construction accidents can involve a variety of circumstances which entail...
It was supposed to be an ordinary Wednesday at work.It turned out to be anything but that for 31 year-old Michael Buffamante, a Hawthorne, NY resident who was killed while working for Welkin Mechanical. Buffamante was working on a scaffold that was elevated above a 35...
There is a degree of trust that must exist with all forms of transportation.When you hop into a vehicle that your friend is driving, you trust them to get you to your destination safely. Likewise, when you use public transportation or a taxi, you know the driver is...
Construction work certainly can be dangerous work, and this was highlighted last week in the death of a construction worker at the site of a hotel in construction was killed last week. The worker, according to reports, was hit in the head by a detached machine part...
Block O'Toole & Murphy was recently recognized by ALM in a newly-released list of only 50 law firms in the entire United States that achieved the largest total recoveries for plaintiffs over a 12-month period.The announcement, reported by ALM's The National Law...
Trucking safety regulations, like any area of law, do change from time to time, and not all changes are heartily welcomed by the industry. For example, a proposed requirement that all commercial vehicles would be fitted with electronic logging devices has a portion of...
Construction accidents have skyrocketed over the last year during a period of unmatched building in New York City. It has led to a standoff between safety advocates, politicians and union officials over whether union construction work is safer than non-union work. The...
Machinery at a construction site malfunctioned and 43 year-old construction worker Paul Kennedy lost his life as a result.The fatal construction accident, which occurred at 61 Bond Street, between State and Schermerhorn Streets, right in the heart of Downtown...
