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On Wednesday, July 1, 2020, residents in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn were shocked when a three-story building on the corner of Court and Union Streets suddenly collapsed around 4:30 p.m. Jacinto Salazar, 52, was left injured and debris littered the...
On Wednesday, June 24, 2020, three workers were injured--one critically--when several roof trusses collapsed in Jefferson County, New York. A truss is a collection of rafters or beams that supports a roof or other structure, forming a framework. According to State...
On Monday, June 15, 2020, three construction workers were injured on the job when the work platform they were standing on in an elevator shaft gave way, causing them to fall down the shaft from the fourth floor to the basement. The incident occurred around 8:00 a.m....
On June 11, 2020 at around 10:00 a.m., a Clarkstown Highway Department employee at a job site in New City, New York was injured when the trench he was working in suddenly collapsed, trapping him in dirt and debris up to his waist. Thankfully, the 35-year-old's...
On the morning of Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 35-year-old worker Victor Pando was killed and his 26-year-old colleague injured when a fire extinguisher exploded at the Morgan General Mail Facility at 341 Ninth Avenue in Manhattan. The two men were injured by shrapnel...
A Long Island worker suffered a head injury after a serious and appalling accident at a Searingtown construction site on Friday, May 8, 2020. According to Nassau County police, the unidentified man, who is 36 years of age, was working at 60 Shelter Rock Road when he...
Three construction workers were injured on Wednesday, March 25 in a trench collapse, an ordinary construction job gone wrong. The three men were working at 1925 East 14th Street, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, removing tree stumps and roots in the backyard of the...
On Monday, March 16, 2020, 30-year-old Ricardo Martinez was seriously injured on a construction site in Orange County, New York. At around 11:00 a.m., Monroe State Police responded to a call after Martinez fell from a fourth-floor window at 18 Israel Zupnick Drive in...
Two construction workers were injured on the afternoon of Monday, March 9, due to a partial building collapse. The workers had been demolishing a church in East Harlem near Madison Avenue and East 126th Street. All of a sudden, part of a wall from the three-story...
At around 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, a scaffolding collapse occurred at a Brooklyn construction site, injuring three workers. The NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) is investigating to determine if strong winds are a contributing factor for the incident. A...
