According to a 2015 Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) report, there were more than 10,300 incidents involving severe work-related injuries, which included 7,636 hospitalizations and 2,644 amputations. These figures are only representative of federal OSHA states and do not encompass occupational injuries from states that... Read More

New York City officials have announced that new safety measures will be put in place in response to a crane collapse that killed one and injured three in TriBeCa. The collapse took place on Friday morning, February 5th, as workers were trying to secure the... Read More

A recent crane accident in Midtown Manhattan has raised speculation about whether a lawsuit might be filed by victims. The accident, which occurred on June 1, injured workers and pedestrians passing by on the street below. An industrial air conditioning unit plummeted nearly 30 stories... Read More

A construction worker in Midtown Manhattan was trapped and killed by a concrete slab weighing thousands of pounds in September. The 27-year-old victim, Rodalfo Vasquez-Galian was pronounced dead at the scene. Vasquez-Galian had been working to secure the foundation of a building next to the... Read More

After years of waiting for justice to be done in a New York crane accident lawsuit, two families have been asked to wait once more as the judge declared a mistrial in their wrongful death civil suit against the owner of a New York crane... Read More

Eight construction workers were severely injured last month in a Brooklyn construction accident that occurred in a decrepit residential structure at 1916 Prospect Place, according to a report in the New York Daily News. Falling from building’s third floor down to the ground floor, several... Read More