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Tragically, a preventable elevator accident at a Midtown construction site killed 24-year-old Luis Miguel Duran on Thursday afternoon. The worker was riding in an elevator at 1227 Broadway, a high-rise building between 29th and 30th streets. While approaching the 33rd...
The lawyers at Block O'Toole & Murphy are bringing you details of another frightening construction accident that took place today in New York City. The setting was bustling midtown Manhattan.Earlier this afternoon a 3 story building on the west side of Manhattan...
Just a few weeks ago, a post on this blog discussed the dangers of working in airports. Although the post primarily described the kinds of accidents that occur at the big airports in the New York City metro area -JFK, LaGuardia and Newark, even very small airports...
New York City is constantly under construction. One result is that construction accidents continue to happen in all five boroughs. However, New York is not alone in this. Because construction is such a dangerous job, workplace accidents involving ladders, scaffolding,...
Two men have been convicted of criminal charges stemming from a fatal February 2009 Staten Island construction accident. According to a recent article in the NY Daily News, the accident occurred on Bay Street in Rosebank, NY when a concrete façade collapsed in...
Block O Toole & Murphy is pleased to announce that two of its attorneys have reached a substantial settlement of $3 million for a ladder fall incident. The then-41-year-old Plaintiff received the settlement after receiving serious wrist, facial, and cognitive...
A construction worker has been rescued after a structural collapse resulted in a cave-in, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. A construction site in East Harlem turned chaotic when a trench collapsed, trapping a construction worker shoulder-deep in debris for over...
Block O Toole & Murphy is pleased to announce that it has reached a settlement of $2.25 million for an undocumented worker injured in a Manhattan construction accident. The worker was performing cutting and drilling on the 27th floor of a Manhattan high-rise when...
On November 8, 2011, five workers were trapped under debris and corrugated metal when a building under construction in Brooklyn collapsed. All five workers were rescued from the rubble by the New York City Fire Department. Tragically, one of the innocent workers later...
Block, O Toole & Murphy is pleased to announce that it has obtained a $4,475,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed after a fatal construction accident. In December 2007, a 33 year-old union ironworker foreman was working at a construction site in New York City when...
