Posts tagged fatal

• OSHA cites Brooklyn contractor in fatal Brighton Beach building collapse

  Paul Napoli | May 27, 2012 4:35 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Federal safety regulators have found the collapse of a building under construction in Brighton Beach that killed one worker and injured four others was the result of poor construction by a...

• Construction worker dies first day on the job at Manhattan worksite

  Paul Napoli | May 19, 2012 9:07 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A construction worker on the job for only one day died Thursday after a fall from scaffolding at a worksite in SoHo. According to the NYC Department of Buildings’ active complaint, a...

• Worker crushed to death by huge roll of newsprint paper at PA printing plant

  Paul Napoli | May 18, 2012 9:44 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Federal officials are investigating after a huge roll of paper destined for a printing plant rolled off the boxcar delivering it, crushing a rail worker. The U.S. Department of Labor’s...

• CDC warns of 13 bathtub refinisher deaths tied to common paint stripping chemical

  Paul Napoli | February 28, 2012 4:23 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Federal health officials are warning that thirteen bathtub refinishing workers have died after exposure to methylene chloride, a chemical ingredient in many products used to strip bathtubs before...

• MTA was worried about rising injury rate on LIRR tunnel project before falling concrete hit a worker

  Paul Napoli | November 20, 2011 6:14 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  November 19, 2011 Officials had concerns about the increasing number of injuries on a Long Island Rail Road tunnel construction before a chunk of falling concrete killed a sandhog. ...

• Architects in Brooklyn Fatal Building Collapse may have Troubled History

  Paul Napoli | November 10, 2011 8:27 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  November 10, 2011 Just days after the collapse of a building on a Brighton Beach construction site, the New York Daily News reports that the condominium project’s architects have had trouble...

• NY Motorcyclist Protesting Helmet Law Wrecks and Dies of Traumatic Brain Injury

  Paul Napoli | July 04, 2011 2:26 PM | 3 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  July 3, 2011 A motorcycle rider participating in an event in Onondaga, NY to protest New York State’s mandatory helmet law has wrecked and died of a traumatic brain injury doctors say was...

• Massey Energy Disregarded Mine Safety, Faked Records, Could Have Prevented Death of 29 Miners

  Paul Napoli | June 30, 2011 1:13 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  June 29, 2011 A government investigation has found that Massey Energy Company had a history of disregarding safety practices at its West Virginia mine, including failure to fix broken safety...

• OSHA Fines Companies $229,390 after Explosion at PA Oil Well Kills Two Workers

  Paul Napoli | January 16, 2011 10:05 PM | 1 CommentNew York City, NY Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  January 16, 2011 After an investigation into an explosion at a Pennsylvania well site that killed two workers, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration...

• Gov. Agencies hosting New York City Summit for Latino and Immigrant Worker Safety

  Paul Napoli | November 12, 2010 8:57 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Miscellaneous
  

  November 12, 2010 The U.S Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced today that the agency is co-sponsoring a summit in New York City with the U.S....