A Daily News truck driver was killed in a car accident on Nostrand and Flushing Avenues in Brooklyn on Sunday morning. Jonathan Long, 24, was driving through an intersection when his truck collided with a green outer-borough taxi cab. The collision forced the truck to flip over. Long was found unconscious at the scene and …
A negligent act by an owner and general contractor killed yet another construction worker. An Irish man has died in New York City after part of a crane fell on top of him. The man has been named as 40-year-old Trevor Loftus. Mr. Loftus owned a construction company and worked between New York and West Limerick over …
Construction workers work hard; they build the buildings and infrastructure that is essential for other New Yorkers. But construction work is not the safest profession. Every day construction workers step onto the job site, they are at risk of a wide range of serious, even fatal, injuries. When those risks become a reality, injured workers …
Several people were seriously hurt and dozens were evaluated for potential injury after a rental truck collided with a car and school bus with children aboard, then careened through the front of a food store in Queens Friday, pinning a customer beneath it and trapping the driver inside, authorities said. The driver and customer were …
New Yorkers take pride in their skyline. And they should. But that world famous skyline comes with risks, especially for the men and women who built it. One of the biggest construction injury risks for these New Yorkers comes from falling objects. In the hustle and bustle of a job site, building materials and power …
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New Yorkers have likely heard about many situations where a person goes to a store and then slips and falls on a puddle. Others may have heard about a person who walks up a flight of stairs and leans on the railing which then gives way, sending the person tumbling. These situations raise premises liability …
Four construction workers were hurt during an interior demolition project at a midtown commercial building not far from Grand Central Terminal Tuesday, officials say. This comes on the heels of the East Village building explosion which occurred a week and a half ago, killing two and injuring dozens. Morgan Levine Dolan has filed a lawsuit …
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Many, if not all, New Yorkers recognize that drinking and driving is dangerous. But few realize that texting and driving (and other forms of distracted driving) can be even more dangerous. That lack of awareness leads to far too many preventable car accidents. A recent survey showed that a majority of young-adult drivers thought texting …
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While the City is probing whether the East Village building owner Maria Hrynenko illegally tapped into gas main, families mourn the loss of their loved ones and wait for news from doctors as to the prognosis of their loved one who have been injured. The blast killed 2, including Nicholas Figueroa and seriously injured dozens. One victim …
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