Sentences with phrase «workers fell to their death»

Last week, one day after a City Council committee unanimously approved the bill, two construction workers fell to their deaths at separate sites in Manhattan within hours of each other.

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And in fact, twelve men did fall to their death, and with each one, the workers grew more and more scared and worked more and more slowly.

A construction worker fell 27 stories to his death Thursday morning while on the job in Lower Manhattan.

The number of fatalities at construction and industrial sites is decreasing overall, reports the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), but 42 workers in New York fell to their death in 2012, 10 more than the year before.

She plays a pregnant fast - food worker who falls in love with the stepson of the louse who got her pregnant, after the stepson (Luke Wilson) and his no - good brother (Jake Busey) have scared the guy to death on instructions from their creepy mother (Catherine O'Hara).

Be it workers compensation or personal injury and wrongful death occurring outside the workplace, such as: car accidents, dram shop actions (where a bar or restaurant serves a customer to the point of legal intoxication), medical malpractice, defective products, construction accidents, premises liability (e.g., slip and falls based on failure to provide a safe place to walk or play), or any other type of preventable injury or death.

However, for construction workers hurt or the families of those killed in a fatal construction accident due to an incident involving a ladder or scaffold fall, there is often a devastating aftermath awaiting them following their injury or their loved one's death, including:

Eric has defended clients in actions involving personal injury to and deaths of seamen, longshoremen and harbor workers (slips, falls, back, shoulder and neck injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder claims, and alleged toxic exposures to asbestos).

Our firm brings extensive experience and knowledge to every case we handle and has achieved favorable outcomes for clients in many different types of personal injury cases including: car accidents, slip and fall, wrongful death, construction accidents, workers compensation and medical malpractice.

Slip and fall cases fall under the area of premises liability law, which holds a premise owner or property manager responsible for making sure that there are no unsafe conditions on a property that could cause injury or death to a resident, visitor, worker, or patron.

If a worker is on a high rise building project with heights sometime over 100 floors, a fall to the ground could unfortunately spell certain death.

Here's some news for those builders you may know of who think that fall protection on the jobsite is just not that important: Between 1982 and 2015, 42 % of construction worker deaths were attributed to falls.