Construction Workers’ Injuries

At least one person was reported dead and several injured in the collapse of a   crane in lower Manhattan this morning. The construction crane collapsed on Worth Street between Broadway and Church street in t he TriBeCa area after 8:00 am.   A crane accident can leave people with serious injuries. Those injuries may require […]

A construction worker was critically injured after he fell five stories from a condominium construction site and was impaled on the steel rebar below, according to reports. The accident happened at 34 West 17th Street and 6th Avenue in the Flatiron District on Wednesday morning.   The unidentified Empire Builder Corp. worker was taken to

FDNY crews rescued four construction workers when the scaffolding they were on collapsed at an upper Manhattan work site, officials said.   The workers were on a six-story apartment building at 44 Seaman Avenue in Inwood at 11:45 a.m. when the main cable of the scaffolding snapped, officials said. The men were first saved by

A construction worker was critically injured after he fell from the scaffolding of a commercial building at 1111 Victory Boulevard in Staten Island. The New York City Buildings Department issued a stop-work order on the building at the request of an inspection by the New York Police Department.   The 37-year-old worker, who has not

A 19-year-old construction worker died and two others were injured after a wall caved in on them while they were doing excavation work at a building in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to authorities. A cinder block wall fell onto the workers at about 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 3.   “The earth was removed from beneath that

A construction worker died after falling 13 floors from a scaffolding at the Sherman Towers co-op building on the Upper East Side on Tuesday afternoon, according to reports.   The 30-year-old man, who has not yet been identified, fell from the scaffold on the 14th floor of the building and onto a sidewalk shed. When

A construction worker was seriously injured after he fell 40 feet to the ground at the One Manhattan West construction site at West 31st Street and Dyer Avenue on Monday afternoon, according to reports.   The man, whose identity has not been revealed, fell off a building at the 5.4 million square foot, mixed-use megaproject

New York job sites are hustling, bustling places with people and vehicles moving every which way. In the midst of all that movement, construction accidents sometimes happen. In the best cases, the injuries are minor. But, in many instances, construction workers die. Consider figures from the federal Bureau of Labor and Statistics. According to its

Construction-related incidents have killed eight people so far this year, which is as much as all of 2014. The last time the number of fatalities was this high was in 2008, the New York Times reported, at the height of the last building boom. The total number of accidents rose 24 percent in 2014 to

This month we secured a $1,525,000.00 settlement from the City of New York and another defendant for a laborer who sustained back injuries at a Bronx construction site on East 75th Street.  The laborer, who was paid in cash, maintained that an unshored trench in the roadway collapsed, causing him to fall approximately six to eight