The roof of an under-construction building on Carlton Avenue in New York City collapsed earlier this week, leaving one worker dead and another seriously injured. Both men were on the roof around 9:15 a.m. working as cement mixers when the structure beneath them collapsed and they were sent plunging down…
Tropical storm Issac has made the recovery of an injured cement plant worker more difficult. Rescue workers are still attempting to find a worker who fell into a cement silo over a week ago when the roof of the silo gave way. The worker, Pierre Mezidor, was measuring the level…
Earlier this month, two workers were killed on the University of Texas-Dallas’s Richardson campus after a crane collapsed above them. The workers were dismantling a construction crane at Arts and Technology Building when powerful gusts of wind and rain rolled in. Around 3:00 p.m., the storm caused the crane to…
Earlier this morning, three painters working on the third story of an office building fell from their perch and crashed into the ground at a Boca Raton office park. The painters, who were working at 4800 Conference Way South, were working from bucket trucks when one of the painters reached…
Earlier this week, a construction worker at the World Trade Center reconstruction project fell off some scaffolding and impaled himself on a piece of medal. The thirty-seven year old male was working on 4 World Trade Center when he suffered a puncture wound to his side after falling about five…