Job Site Injuries

A man was crushed to death by a forklift at a Queens factory Thursday morning.  At about 11 a.m., emergency crews received a call about a man pinned under a forklift he was working on at Raw Equipment on College Point Boulevard in Flushing.  When EMS arrived, the man was pronounced dead at the scene. […]

A Staten Island father of 3 was crushed to death by a sewer pipe last week on Governors Island.  Abbas Behnam-Bakhsh, 55, was helping unload the pipe from a delivery truck when the harness used to hoist it off a delivery truck snapped. Carp Construction, the Staten Island company contracted to do the job, has

A construction worker has been injured during the demolition project at the now-vacant Terminal 3 at Kennedy International Airport. The worker was struck in the leg by falling debris earlier this morning. This type of construction accident falls under the protections of the New York Labor Law. This is the exact type of accident in

Earlier today, firefighters spent over two hours rescuing a construction worker from a 25-foot trench at a construction site in Queens.   The rescue operation at 119-02 in Kew Gardens was lengthy because the worker was stuck in a very small area. The 36-year-old construction worker, Marco Castellon, was working in the hole when it suddenly collapsed

According to a report released by the AFL-CIO, workers in New York and other states may no longer be enjoying the benefits of improving workplace standards. Although the national rate of workplace fatalities had been decreasing since the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) was passed in 1970, that trend recently leveled out. Experts now

Two Brooklyn construction workers were seriously injured today when a truck with a crane attached overturned, pinning them underneath.  It took more than 45 minutes to rescue the injured workers. The injured construction workers were doing work on the Belt Parkway in Canarsie when the truck tipped over.  The truck was clearly not properly secured.

A construction worker was injured when a building partially collapsed in Queens.  The first-floor facade of the three-story building, located at 31-19 30th Ave., collapsed as the worker was on a ladder. Vardaris Tech Inc., a Long Island City general contractor, and Fertitta Produce Inc, the owner, are fully responsible for this accident under the New York

In order to prevent injuries to construction workers and those in the general public, measures should be taken to ensure that job sites are safe. Construction injuries can be devastating and can even lead to fatalities. Last year, New York City experienced a nearly 40 percent increase in construction site accidents. In response to that

Emergency crews rushed to a construction site across from the Javits Center earlier this morning.  It has been report a worker fell into a hole while working on the construction site.  The man was deep in a tunnel under a site on the north side of Eleventh Avenue and West 34th Street when he tripped over

Duane Morgan of Morgan Levine recently forced an insurance company to settle a claim brought by a sandhog, a union worker who digs the tunnels under the City of New York.   This particular sandhog was injured when he slipped and fell off of a truck while working on the connecting tube being constructed between