The worker who fell from the Throgs Neck Bridge yesterday morning is presumed dead. After hours of searching yesterday, the body of husband and father of three John Massas, 35, who was on his second day of work at the bridge, has not been found. more ›

Yesterday afternoon, a worker took a fatal fall from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Manuel Pereira, 48, had been working on a catwalk next to the lower level of the bridge; the Staten Island Advance reports the concrete barrier "apparently...tipped over" onto the catwalk.

An excavator vehicle was placing "Jersey barriers" -- 8,500-pound, 10-foot-long concrete slabs that separate traffic from a construction area -- along the bridge at the time. more ›