Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'constructionaccident'
April 29, 2008
On a day when construction workers who died on the job were being remembered and on the start of the Department of Buildings' Construction Safety Week, a construction worker was crushed under a front-end loader at site in Staten Island. According to the Staten Island Advance, the victim had been guiding the loader's operator as it was being backed out of Martha Street and Clove Road at 9:30 p.m. last night. And when the front-end......
Continue Reading "Construction Worker Injured by Front-End Loader"January 30, 2008
Today's high winds may be to blame for a construction worker's death in Fort Greene. Around 10AM, the FDNY tells WNBC that a "construction worker had been working on the 13th floor when are large gust of wind picked up the scaffold he was standing on and blew him over the edge and on to a setback at street level." The other worker, who was knocked from the 13th floor scaffolding to the 10th floor,......
Continue Reading "Construction Worker Dead, Another Injured at Brooklyn Building"
