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Iron Worker Critically Injured After Falling 25 Feet in Construction Accident

Posted on June 26, 2008
Two more construction workers died at work this last week. This coming after the New York Times reported that thousands of construction workers gathered on April 29th to mourn the loss of 13 people who have been killed in New York construction accidents just this year...

New Building Inspectors Follow Increased Construction Deaths and Accidents

Posted on June 23, 2008
Last month Mayor Bloomberg and his administration announced that the city will hire sixty-three more safety inspectors in light of the alarming number of construction deaths and accidents in New York City. The fatal accidents and inspection flaws also led to the resignation of Patricia Lancaster, the first female New York Buildings? Department Commissioner...

Sixteen Year-Old Driver Flees Scene of Hit and Run

Posted on June 20, 2008
According to a story in the New York Times, on June 21st a sixteen year-old driver fled the scene of a hit and run accident that injured four people, including two toddlers. Witnesses to the accident said that the car struck two children in Manhattan, who were playing on a sidewalk...

8 Pedestrians Injured by Hit and Run Driver in Garment District

Posted on June 17, 2008
According to a New York Times article, around 5PM on June 20th, eight pedestrians were hit and injured by a hit and run driver in Manhattan in the Midtown garment district. The accident occurred when a vehicle, a dark blue Ford Explorer, jumped the curb-plowing into the group of pedestrians...

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Mayor Bloomberg and The City Council Present New Safety Plan for Construction Sites After Unprecedented Construction Worker Deaths

Posted on June 14, 2008
The New York Times reports, that in early June, after an unprecedented number of fatal construction worker accidents, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City Council have unveiled a 13 point legislative package that is intended to increase oversight of building sites and increase fines for violation, while requiring registration of all key contractors...

Nursing Homes Structure Ownership in Ways to Avoid Liability for Negligence, Abuse, and Death of Patients

Posted on June 11, 2008
Late last year private equity firms came under the scrutiny of the United States Senate, according to a story in The New York Times. It seems that private equity firms have been snatching up nursing homes all over the country-structuring complex levels of ownership in an attempt to avoid liability from lawsuits handled by New York personal injury lawyers...

Washington DC - Senate Votes to Protect Consumers With Stronger Product Safety Laws

Posted on June 08, 2008
In March of this year, according to a story in the New York Times, the Senate, responding to an ever-increasing number of injuries from defective toys and other consumer products, approved a measure to overhaul the country?s product liability laws and to fortify the safety agency that is charged with oversight of the consumer marketplace...

Federal Report Finds Nursing Home Abuse Still Prevalent

Posted on June 05, 2008
According to a recent study by Federal Health officials, only minimal penalties are assessed to organizations that have been repeatedly cited for nursing home abuse of their patients. Congress has established strict standards for nursing homes as far back as 1987, and both Presidents Clinton and Bush, along with the nursing home industry have announced many initiatives to improve nursing home care...

Crane Collapse on 91st Street and 1st Ave Kills At Least Two People

Posted on May 30, 2008
A crane that was working on a high rise under construction at 333 E. 91st St., collapsed this morning, killing at least 2 people, one of them a construction worker. The collapse of this enormous crane came only 2 � months after another crane collapse accident that killed seven people about two miles south of this location...

Construction Worker Dies After Nylon Safety Strap Fails

Posted on May 27, 2008
According to the New York Times, Kevin Kelly, 25, of Bayside, Queens, died after falling several stories when a safety strap intended to connect him to the building on which he was working failed. Kelly was installing windows at a condominium tower that was under construction when he fell from the 23rd floor to a 14th floor balcony at about 10:30 A...

Foam Manufacturers Pay $30 Million To Settle Product Liability Lawsuits

Posted on May 25, 2008
Several foam manufactures have agreed to settle for $30 million with families of victims of a 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people and injured 200, an article in Newsday reported. Egg-crate-style foam on the walls and ceiling of the club has been blamed for fueling the fire, which was sparked by a fireworks display for a rock band at the club...

9-year-old Brooklyn Boy Suffers Severe Brain Injuries In Hit-and-Run Accident

Posted on May 20, 2008
A 9-year-old Brooklyn boy suffered critical injuries after he was struck by a teenage hit-and-run driver, who reportedly turned himself in to authorities later, according to a news report in The New York Times. Akeem Suluki suffered brain injuries and lung injuries and was transported to Kings County Hospital Center, the Times reported...

Auto Accident on State Supreme Court Steps Injures Six

Posted on May 17, 2008
Six people were injured, including the driver of a Nissan Altima that jumped a curb-hitting a fire hydrant and a coffee cart- then pinning a man against a railing on the steps of the New York State Supreme Court-popularly known as the courthouse in the opening scenes of Law & Order...

Actor Who Suffered Severe Fall Injuries On Stage Wants To Sue Production Company

Posted on May 15, 2008
A Broadway actor, who suffered severe injuries after he fell onstage during a production of ?The Little Mermaid,? has asked for a court order to preserve a stage prop in connection with a lawsuit he is planning to file. According to an Associated Press news report , 51-year-old Adrian Bailey filed the petition in Manhattan?s state Supreme Court to preserve the stage prop, a boat, so attorneys and consultants may examine it...

Harlem Auto Accident Kills 1 and Injures 7

Posted on May 10, 2008
One person died and seven people suffered injuries after an out-of-control Chevy Astro van jumped a curb and rammed into people on a sidewalk in Harlem. The van?s driver, who has not been identified, died in this auto accident, six people suffered serious injuries and one 3-year-old who was pinned under the vehicle suffered critical injuries, according to a news report on WCBS-TV...

Task Force Makes Recommendations To Curb Teenage Driving Accidents

Posted on May 07, 2008
A story in The New York Times illustrates that no one is sheltered from the tragedies and near tragedies of life. New Jersey?s Governor, Jon S. Corzine, shared with his safety task force, and at a news conference, how his family has been personally touched by teenage New York traffic accidents, indicating that all three of his children, at one point or another, had been a traffic statistic - one having been seriously injured...

Three Dead In New York Tractor Trailer Accident

Posted on May 05, 2008
Three people died in a Long Island tractor trailer accident after their Ford Escort rammed into the back of a big rig parked on a residential street, The New York Times reports. According to the news report, the truck driver was asleep inside the stationary vehicle when the 1995 Ford Escort hit the tractor trailer and ended up almost entirely underneath the truck...

Near Railroad Accident Occurs When Train Doors Malfunction

Posted on May 01, 2008
After yet another malfunction on the New Jersey Transit system where a door opened while the train was moving and passengers were inches away from falling to the tracks below, a rail industry consultant wondered out loud whether New Jersey Transit might be cutting corners on safety and maintenance in its attempt to keep up with record demand...

Woman Dies in Collision with Fire Truck

Posted on April 25, 2008
In a tragic example of the dangers of our city?s highways, a 27-year old Queens woman was killed in a NY Auto Accident on Saturday, April 19th when the car she was driving and a fire engine collided at an intersection in South Jamaica, according to an article published in the New York Times...

NY City Building Chief Resigns Following Rash of Construction Accidents

Posted on April 22, 2008
In a natural escalation of the recent spike in fatal NY construction accidents and administrative miscues, Patricia J. Lancaster, New York City?s first female building commissioner, resigned on Tuesday, April 22nd. She becomes the first commissioner to leave the Bloomberg administration under a cloud of public controversy...

2 FIREFIGHTERS KILLED AND MORE HURT IN SEPARATE CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENTS AT THE DEUTSCH BANK BUILDING

Posted on April 18, 2008
It has been one thing after another since the Deutsch Bank Building was severely damaged and contaminated after the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001. The New York Times reports that the troubled building has passed through a few owners and, most recently, last August 18th two firefighters were killed and two others hurt while fighting a blaze in the building...

Two Killed in Crane Accident ? This Time in Miami

Posted on April 14, 2008
Proof positive that the dangerous nature of crane accidents are not reserved for New York alone, a seven-ton section of crane fell 30 stories in Miami recently, killing two workers and injuring 5 others. Fire and rescue officials said the collapse occurred about 1:45pm as a construction crew tried to lengthen the crane for work on a 46-story luxury high-rise overlooking Biscayne Bay...

ESCALATOR INJURIES FOR OLDER ADULTS ON THE RISE

Posted on April 11, 2008
The New York Times cites a report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicating that while older women suffer more injuries on escalators than older men, it seems that 85% of all escalator injuries result from a NY slip or a fall...

EARLY TEENS - A DEADLY TIME FOR CAR CRASH FATALITIES

Posted on April 09, 2008
According to a study performed by The Children?s Hospital of Philadelphia, and reported in the New York Times, car-related fatalities among youth go up at age 12 and continue to increase for several years. The researchers, led by Dr. Flaura Koplin Winston, based the data after a review of more than 45,000 crashes over a 6-year period in all 50 states...

7 DIE IN CRANE ACCIDENT AFTER FALSE REPORT FILED

Posted on April 04, 2008
According to the New York Times, building officials believe it was highly unlikely that a missed inspection resulted in the deaths of 7 people on March 15th, however, Edward J. Marquette, 46, was arrested anyway after he faked a report indicating that he inspected a construction crane on the East Side of Manhattan on March 4th, just 11 days before the crane collapsed killing 7 people...

CONSTRUCTION WORKER DIES AFTER BEING ELECTROCUTED AT CON EDISON SITE

Posted on March 30, 2008
An investigation is ongoing after forty-four year-old John Rodriguez, a contract worker, died last month after being electrocuted while installing electrical cables at a Consolidated Edison power station in Queens. Rodriquez suffered a heart attack after the New York Construction Accident when he touched a highly charged cable, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens, where he was pronounced dead...

TRAIN UNCOUPLES - STUNNING RIDERS

Posted on March 26, 2008
According to the New York Times, an eight-car East-bound train uncoupled, stunning riders, during evening rush hour earlier this month. The incident, confirmed by Dan Stessel, a spokesman for the New Jersey Transit was confirmed as having happened on February 22nd, and has drawn criticism from the conductor?s union...

WINDOW WASHER SURVIVES 47 FOOT FALL FROM SCAFFOLDING

Posted on March 23, 2008
Dr. Philip Barie, the chief of the division of critical care at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan was quoted in the New York Times as saying, ?If you believe in miracles, this is one.?. Dr. Barie went on to explain, ?We?re talking about tiny, tiny percentages, well under 1 percent, of people who fall that distance and survive...

HIT AND RUN DRIVER KILLS ONE-CAUGHT BY NEW YORK HEROS

Posted on March 20, 2008
In a story reported in the New York Times, Nuevo Estilo, a barber, was an unlikely hero last December when he chased down a hit and run driver of a minivan, who plowed down a man and kept going. Witnesses said the victim, 73 year-old Francisco Guerrero, was carrying several bags of groceries and was walking home when they saw the minivan hit him...

Seven Dead After Devastating Crane Collapse in Manhattan

Posted on March 17, 2008
At least seven people were killed when a large crane collapsed Saturday afternoon at a construction site on Manhattan's East Side. The crane toppled across the street and damaged three buildings, destroying a fourth. Twenty-four were reportedly injured following the devastating NY crane accident which occurred at 303 East 51st Street, near Second Avenue, at about 2 p...

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