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Tragically, a preventable elevator accident at a Midtown construction site killed 24-year-old Luis Miguel Duran on Thursday afternoon. The worker was riding in an elevator at 1227 Broadway, a high-rise building between 29th and 30th streets. While approaching the 33rd...
On the morning of October 21, 2019, two construction workers were injured, one fatally, after a wall collapsed at the Beth Hamedrash Hagodol synagogue on the Lower East Side. Officials from the Department of Buildings are investigating the incident. At around 10:00am,...
21 października 2019 roku, w rannych godzinach, dwóch pracowników budowlanych zostało rannych, jeden z nich niestety śmiertelnie. Do wypadku doszło na terenie żydowskiej synagogi Beth Hamedrash Hagodol na Lower East Side na...
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For the seventh year in a row, personal injury law firm Block O'Toole & Murphy dominated in the New York Law Journal's 2018 Top Settlements report. Four of the Top 10 settlements were achieved by the firm, in addition to seven of the Top 15, eight of the Top 20,...
On Saturday afternoon, September 21, 2019, 14-year-old Mario Valenzuela was struck and killed by a sanitation truck in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens. This accident tragically brings the number of cyclist deaths in New York City to 21 so far in 2019, more...
A man riding an electric bicycle on Third Avenue was seriously injured in a collision with a truck driver on Sunday, September 8, 2019, continuing the disturbing trend of high rates of NYC bicycle accidents in 2019. This year, there have already been 20 cycling...
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...
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...
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...
