A Long Island worker suffered a head injury after a serious and appalling accident at a Searingtown construction site on Friday, May 8, 2020. According to Nassau County police, the unidentified man, who is 36 years of age, was working at 60 Shelter Rock Road when he...
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Ricardo Martinez Injured on Kiryas Joel Construction Site
On Monday, March 16, 2020, 30-year-old Ricardo Martinez was seriously injured on a construction site in Orange County, New York. At around 11:00 a.m., Monroe State Police responded to a call after Martinez fell from a fourth-floor window at 18 Israel Zupnick Drive in...
Worker Injured, Pedestrian Killed in Series of Tragic Accidents
59-year-old James Weiss, a former firefighter, sustained severe head trauma on the morning of Wednesday, January 15, 2020, when a piece of sheet metal fell on him while he was working at a construction site in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. He was taken to St. Joseph's...
Two Construction Workers Valiantly Rescued from Harlem Building
Two construction workers were rescued in Harlem on Friday, Dec. 13 after the hydraulic lift they were operating tipped over without warning, crashing into the building where they were working. They had been almost 50 feet up in the air when the fully extended lift...
4 Workers Injured, 1 Seriously, in Scaffolding Collapse at 50 Hudson Yards
On Monday morning, November 11, 2019, at least four construction workers were injured, one seriously, in a scaffolding collapse accident at 50 Hudson Yards in New York City. Police and FDNY responded to a call received around 7:30 a.m. about an incident in which four...
Carlos Olmedo Lala Killed in Underreported Manhattan Scaffold Fall
In an accident that received nearly zero media coverage at the time it occurred, construction worker Carlos Olmedo Lala died in a scaffold fall on a construction site in Harlem on June 22, 2019. Altogether, at least fifteen safety violations have been issued to four...
Worker Segundo Huerta Killed in Bronx Building Collapse
In what the NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) is calling a "preventable tragedy," a construction worker and father of five named Segundo Huerta was killed in a building collapse accident that occurred in the Norwood section of the Bronx on Tuesday, August 27, 2019. In...
Derrick Paris & Justin McLoughlin Fatally Electrocuted in Orange County
Two utility workers were killed in a mysterious electrocution accident while performing work which was supposed to be non-electrical in Orange County, New York on Monday, August 19, 2019. The two workers, who have been identified as Derrick Paris, 51, and Justin...
Samuel Waisbren Killed by Malfunctioning Elevator in Manhattan
A man named Samuel Charles Waisbren was killed in a tragic elevator accident at the Manhattan Promenade, a residential building located at 344 Third Ave. in Kips Bay, on Thursday, August 22, 2019. Disturbingly, it is being reported that the owners of this building...
Crane Collapse Damages Jacob Riis Apartment Building in East Village
Residents of the Jacob Riis housing complex narrowly escaped a frightening scene after a crane partially collapsed, sending part of the crane and heavy metal beams into the exterior of an apartment building, knocking air conditioners out of windows and shattering...
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