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A Bronx man died when he was crushed to death by a malfunctioning elevator in Manhattan. He was crushed when he became pinned between the car and the third floor of a Broome Street building.The elevator was full of New Year's Eve partygoers when it began to free-fall...
Sheniqua Silva was killed while walking home from her new job after a Coca-Cola truck violently slammed into her on a quiet Bronx Street. Silva, a mother of 5 young boys, was innocently walking near the intersection of Bruckner Boulevard and E. 138th St. during the...
Juan Cerezo, 30, was killed in another New York City construction accident that occurred this week in Manhattan. The fatal accident is the 7th deadly construction accident in New York City this year. Mr. Cerezo, who hailed from the Bronx, was working on the 14th floor...
An inexcusable mistake by an air traffic controller led to the death of pilot Joseph Milo earlier this month, according to reports released by the NTSB. The air traffic controller directed the pilot, who was operating a plane that was experiencing some mechanical...
Worker Killed Following Trench Wall Collapse at Local New Jersey Construction Site A 43-year-old construction worker was tragically killed on Monday after a trench collapsed during the construction of a home in Franklin Township, New Jersey. The worker was buried...
Christian Ginesi, a 25-year-old construction worker, died after falling down an elevator shaft at a construction site. He was working on building a midtown Manhattan luxury hotel. The attorneys at Block O'Toole & Murphy have the details of yet another New York...
A mechanical failure caused the death of a crane safety officer in Manhattan yesterday. The employee was checking an apparent hydraulic malfunction when the crane collapsed on him in the middle of seemingly normal operations. The nature of the malfunction has not yet...
31 year-old New York City Housing Authority maintenance worker Toni Jackson was killed Saturday March 7, 2015, in Brooklyn, New York.Jackson was found unconscious next to the trash compactor in the basement of a West 32nd Street building - part of the Coney Island...
This blog has reported before about the dangers of sanitation trucks and the accidents they cause. The last blog post on garbage truck accidents appeared in July 2014. Sadly, another incident occurred in January and was reported in the New York Times on January 17. A...
Yet another truck accident involving a city sanitation truck has killed a New York City resident, this time on Staten Island. An elderly woman was returning from her daily trip to the local store to get her paper and coffee when she was hit crossing the street at...
