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Recent Notable Construction Incidents

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Jen Chung

Published Mar 16, 2008

Modified Mar 20, 2008

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September 29, 2006: Crane rigging from a Toll Brothers development at Third Avenue and 13th Street fell to the street, crushing a cab. Somehow the cab's driver and passenger were uninjured.

 

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Published Mar 16, 2008

Modified Mar 20, 2008

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After a number of high-profile construction incidents in the past few years, the Buildings Department announced last month they would introduce stricter safety measures for high-rise construction. Here are some of those incidents:

There are terrible construction incidents at sites of all sizes, union or non-union. Last Wednesday, a worker died while digging a foundation in East New York (a neighboring wall collapsed on him). And a 2006 study showed non-union workers are at greatest risk for accidents.

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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.

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