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Tram Thuy Nguyen, 37, Killed Due To Negligence of Turner Construction

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.

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Manhattan parking lot collapses, injures worker

Construction work is hard work, and it’s important work. But it’s not for the faint of heart. Every day carries risks, risks from heavy equipment, from falling construction material and even from collapsing structures. When these risks come to pass, construction injuries happen. Take a recent construction accident in Manhattan. Workers were demolishing a parking

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Delta Flight 1086 Skids Off Runway at LaGuardia Airport

Delta Flight 1086 was coming in from Atlanta when it went off Runway 13 just after 11 a.m. Thursday, the FAA said.  Emergency responders are on the scene after a Delta plane skidded off the runway and crashed through a fence at LaGuardia Airport.  There have been reported numerous injuries. There were 125 passengers and

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Types of compensation following a car accident

For many New Yorkers, driving is the most dangerous thing they do all day. A mechanical failure like a jammed accelerator or leaky brakes; or a lone moment of distraction from a text, a conversation or changing the radio station can send the thousands of pounds of steel and glass they are driving into the

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Which jobs fall within workers’ compensation laws?

Many New Yorkers work. But not every New Yorker fits within the workers’ compensation laws. And many of those workers do not know whether those laws cover them. That disconnect can add an extra layer of effort precisely at a point when most workers do not have the time or ability to give it–right after

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TA Bus Driver Francisco DeJesus Charged in Bus Accident

An MTA bus driver was arrested hours after hitting and seriously injuring a 15-year-old girl in a Grand Street crosswalk Friday morning. Francisco DeJesus, was charged with not exercising due care and failure to yield after his Q59 bus ran over the teen’s left leg while making a left turn onto Grand Street from Union Avenue.  Video

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Car-train accident raises questions about New York railroad

By now readers may have heard about the tragic car accident involving a train and an SUV that killed six people in New York. It was the deadliest accident ever for the Metro-North commuter rail. The wreck took place at night at a tricky railroad crossing. The spot featured backed-up traffic and an on-off area

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