08 April

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NYC DOT Worker Killed After Being Struck by Car

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On April 4th, a New York City Department of Transportation worker was hit by a car on that Wednesday morning. The accident led to the man’s death. This incident occurred in the Bronx. According to sources, the accident happened at around 10:30 in the morning off the southbound Hutchinson River Parkway near Exit 5 in Baychester. The victim was George Staab, a 57-year-old many from Shirley. He was taken to nearby Jacobi Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. Mayor Bill de Blasio had this to say about the accident, “A very sad report that one of our DOT electricians was struck and...

08 April

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A New Law Seeks to Prevent Construction-Related Deaths

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in Accident Injuries, Accident News, Construction Accidents, Work Accidents

A new law in New York City is looking to decrease the number of construction accidents and deaths. Last year, construction accidents took the lives of 12 workers in New York City. This information comes from the Department of Buildings. In Queens alone, three workers were killed and 95 were injured last year. Local Law 196 was passed and signed by Mayor de Blasio last October, and it went into effect on March 1. It mandates that workers and supervisors must draft a site safety plan and go through safety training. This law seeks to improve safety conditions and prevent accidents in...

07 April

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NYC MTA Worker Killed in Fall

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In Mid-March, a New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker, St. Clair Richard Stephens, fell about 20 feet and landed on his head. He fell when a wooden safety railing broke. He was 23-years-old and a track worker. The fall led to his death. Stephens was standing between two columns when the rail gave way and sent him falling into empty space where he landed on the tracks below. He had only been working at the job for 6 months and was on a crew that was tasked with removing redundant rails and putting them on a work train. Stephens was working alone...

06 April

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NYC Worker Doesn’t Need to Prove Lack of Fault, According to Court

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NYC Worker Doesn’t Need to Prove Lack of Fault, According to Court

This story is very current as it happened on April 4th. New York’s highest court ruled on Tuesday in the favor of a New York City sanitation worker. He was suing over injuries he sustained in a workplace accident. According to him, he should receive compensation for the injuries. The court ruled in his favor. They said he does not have to prove that he wasn’t to blame in order to get summary judgement of liability. The ruling ended up being 4-3 in his favor. This ruling comes from the New York Court of Appeals. They reversed a decision from a...

05 April

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In Bronx, Hutchinson Parkway Reopened

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An accident that happened on April 4 in the Bronx led to Hutchinson Parkway being closed for a time. The NYPD have said that a New York City Department of Transportation worker was hit in the area at around 10:30 a.m. The man who was hit was George Staab, a 57-year-old resident of Long Island. He was taken to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. Sadly, he was pronounced dead at the hospital. The driver of the vehicle stayed at the scene of the accident and was treated at the same hospital for minor injuries. The parkway was shut down by police at...

05 April

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Man from Potsdam Dies in Workplace Accident

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Man from Potsdam Dies in Workplace Accident

A man from Potsdam has died after an accident that is reported to have happened while he was changing a tire on the job. This incident happened on Friday, March 9, 2018. The Canton police, as well as the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, have said they are looking into the death. The victim was 33-year-old Justin Miller. He was working his job with Atlantic Testing Laboratories on Route 11 when the incident occurred. It appears that the accident happened in the village of Canton. It is said to have occurred at 80 Lincoln Street, a place where Atlantic Testing has a...

05 April

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Study Finds 222 NY Metro Workplace Deaths Happened in 2016

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Study Finds 222 NY Metro Workplace Deaths Happened in 2016

Further reporting on the important study done on workplace safety in New York has found that there were 222 deaths in the Greater New York Metro area related to workplace accidents. This information is from 2016. This is the same number of fatalities related to workplace accidents in the prior year. This information comes from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data looked at the New York/Newark/New Jersey/and Pennsylvania metropolitan area. The number of workplace deaths has ranged from 145 in the year 2010 to 236 in the year 2004. The biggest number of workplace deaths happened because of vehicle...

10 January

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New York Work Accident Lawyers Discuss Workplace Dangers: Electrical Hazards & Electrocutions

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Far too often, busy workers suffer serious injuries while handling electrical tasks. Electrocutions occur when people are exposed to lethal doses of electricity. One study completed for the U. S. Department of Labor stated that electrocutions are the fourth leading cause of death in construction work – responsible for nine percent (9%) of all construction worker deaths. Other electrical injury hazards include: shocks, burns, arc flashes/arc blasts, fires, and explosions. Burns are perhaps the best-known and most common types of shock-related injuries. The three main types of burns suffered while working with electricity are thermal contact, arc/flash, and electrical. A shock injury...

14 March

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Work Accident Lawyers Note Case Of Worker Caught In Hot Asphalt

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A worker at a Jacksonville, Fla., asphalt plant went through a harrowing eight-hour ordeal during which he was stuck standing in hot tar. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the operator of the plant, Atlantic Coast Asphalt, with 10 serious health and safety violations. The federal agency defines serious violations as those that create a substantial possibility of injury or death in situations that workers either knew of or should have known of. Atlantic Coast Asphalt is a supplier of asphalt products to both commercial and residential customer in the southeastern part of the country. Fines Assessed OSHA, in a press...

01 February

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Work Accident Lawyers Discuss Industrial Accident

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A spokesperson for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) provided details of an industrial accident that happened on Friday, January 29. Clothes Caught in Machine A preliminary investigation suggests that clothes worn by a 57-year-old man got caught in a lathe in operation at the time. As a result, he was pulled into the machine, according to nj.com. Worker Does Not Survive The incident happened in the at a machine shop in Linden, New Jersey. A spokesperson for the Linden Police Department said that dispatchers received a call at 12:18 p.m. The caller reported that a man was not breathing. First responders arrived...