Yearly Archives: 2012
OSHA Calls On NJ Construction Companies to Focus on Fall Prevention
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) this week issued a “call to action” for New Jersey construction companies. They’ve asked that all those companies with workers working at elevations above 6 feet ensure they...
Fourteen Construction Workers Injured After Elevator Drops
Last week, a group of construction workers entered a freight elevator in a building in Chelsea. What happened next typically only occurs on amusement park rides. The elevator car plummeted, dropping the workers from the...
Stallone v. Plaza Construction Corp. and the “Only/Sole Means” Doctrine
There is a concept in New York Labor Law §240(1) known as the “sole means” or “only means” doctrine which basically states that is the equipment or method used during a construction activity is the...
Construction Worker Falls to Death from Park Ave. Apartment Window
A 54-year-old construction worker fell to his death from a building on Park Ave. He was renovating an upper East Side apartment in the building when he slipped and fell out of a floor-to-ceiling window.
OSHA Finds Metro-North Commuter Railroad In Violation
In two separate cases over the past few months, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) has found the Metro-North Commuter Railroad violated parts of the Federal Railroad Safety Act in making injured workers perform...
OSHA’s Fall Prevention Campaign
OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) says that falls are the leading cause of construction site fatalities. If you’ve worked on scaffolding – whether just a few stories up or on a high-rise — you...
Construction Worker Falls to Death in SoHo
Twenty-eight-year-old Adrien Zamora was wrapping up his first day on the job when tragedy struck. According to the NY Daily News, he fell three stories from scaffolding and to his death. Workers for Bras-Al Construction...
A Worker’s Conduct and Poximate Cause: Aburto v. City of New York
By: Robert P. Valletti Even where a worker “violently and forcefully shakes” one of the rails of a scaffoled while dismantiling it, which ultimately causes the scaffold to collapse and the worker to fall through...
Reinforcing the Standard: A Plaintiff Is Not Required To Present Evidence of a Structural Defect in Failed Safety Equipment under New York Labor Law §240(1)
A common issue that personal injury lawyers deal with in cases involving the New York Labor Law §240 is whether the plaintiff is required to, or if not required to should do so anyway, present evidence of a specific structural defect in the safety equipment that failed and caused the plaintiff to fall from a height or sustain an injury from a falling object.
Who Is Responsible When You Are Hurt On The Job?
As a NY / NJ construction worker, you are employed in a risky field. Construction accidents happen every single day in New York and New Jersey. And while you may be responsible for your own...
