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A crane accident can leave people with serious injuries. Those injuries may require hospitalization and surgery. Workers may not be able to return to work for a significant amount of time. Sadly, injuries sustained in a crane accident may even prove to be fatal. Construction workers in New York City who suffer injuries on the

Two weeks ago, Glenn Dolan of Morgan Levine Dolan secured a $2,250,000.00 settlement on behalf of a non-union laborer who sustained permanent injuries to his neck, back and knees  at a Jamaica Avenue construction site in Queens.  The worker was standing on a pile of castings on the back of a dump truck, rigging the

An air conditioning unit being hoisted by a crane to the top of a Midtown Manhattan building Sunday morning plummeted about 28 stories after a cable snapped and 10 people were injured by falling debris, authorities said. The AC unit sheared the side of the 30-story building on Madison Avenue between East 38th and East

A piece of plywood flew off a construction site and slammed into a woman, Tram Thuy Nguyen, as she was walking along West 12th Street in Manhattan, hurling her into a wall and killing her. The city Buildings Department issued a stop-work order at the Greenwich Village construction site Wednesday after her death Tuesday night.

A building where a construction worker fell to his death Monday violated city safety regulations by failing to install guardrails, according to online records. The worker fell from the top of the 10-story office building at 434 W. 33rd St, landing on scaffolding above the sidewalk. The man died from the impact and another man who was

A womas was seriously injured when she was struck by debris that fell off scaffolding in Midtown Monday morning. The incident happened on 42nd Street between Madison and Fifth avenues around 8:30 a.m. An 8- to 10-foot long pipe crashed to the ground in front of a McDonald’s from scaffolding two doors down. The impact

Although construction jobs are more risky than a lot of other jobs, construction workers in New York City and beyond often head to their jobs each day, like others, expecting that they will make it back home safely. They expect that measures have been taken to protect them from serious injuries. Sadly, construction accidents happen

A construction accident can have a large impact on a person’s life. The injuries an individual sustains in an accident can prevent him or her from working for months at a time. Most people who are injured in a construction accident are eligible for workers’ compensation benefits. However, there may be instances when compensation can

In March 2008, a New York City crane accident left seven people dead. It was determined that the inspection of the crane, along with several others, was falsified by a crane inspector. The crane inspector faced criminal charges for his role in the deadly crane accident, but he was later acquitted. He was, however, convicted