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Woman Run Over By Construction Truck On Upper East Side

An elderly woman was struck by a truck near a construction site on the Upper East Side this week. She was transported to a nearby New York hospital in critical condition. A witness reported that the woman's legs were crushed by the truck.

NYC Construction Worked Receives $2.8 Million Settlement After Traumatic Brain Injury

A man has won a New York City construction accident injury lawsuit. The man suffered a traumatic brain injury while working in the Bronx on a tiling project when a light fixture fell on his head. The NYC jury awarded him with $2.6 million in damages.

Fatal Crane Collapse: City Fined, Crane Owner Pleads Not Guilty

The New York City Department of Building has been fined $5,000 after ignoring repeated requests from the state to turn over documents related to last spring's fatal Manhattan crane accident. In other crane accident news, the crane company's president has been charged with manslaughter and has pleaded guilty.

Brooklyn Worker Yuquan Chen Crushed By Granite Slabs

A worker in Brooklyn was crushed to death by granite slabs - he died instantly at the scene of the on-the-job accident. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is investigating the cause of the fatal NYC worker accident.

Staten Island Construction Worker Crushed By Dump Truck

A man was accidentally backed over with a dump truck at a road construction site on Staten Island. The police said there would be no criminal charges in the tragic fatal NYC worker accident.

Two New York Construction Workers Injured When School Roof Collapses

One of the four elementary schools in Pelham, New York, was undergoing a two-story addition this week when the building's roof collapse. Two New York construction workers were injured in the accident.

Pelham Police Chief Joseph Benefico reported that workers were working on the first floor at the time of the accident, which happened around noon on Saturday. Although the condition of the two construction workers is not known, witnesses say that the two employees were carried out on stretchers and taken to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will conduct an investigation into why the roof collapsed and how the workers were injured. The school would be closed to students for at least the beginning of the week, according to Pelham Union Free School District officials. The renovation will add a library and two classrooms to the Pelham school.

New York City Construction Site Accidents Injuries On The Rise

Are construction workers safer in New York City than they were last year? New reports show that although fewer NYC construction workers were killed so far in 2009, many more injuries were reported across the city.

Compared to the same time last year, construction site accidents are up over 40 percent and construction site injuries were up by over 30 percent. However, deaths are on the downswing. There were 2 deaths reported in 2009 from January to June, compared to 19 on-the-job construction deaths in 2008 and 12 construction worker deaths in 2007 in New York City.

Why are there more injuries and accidents this year? Some think that more New York construction accidents and injuries are being reported because of a trend to report more minor accidents in the construction industry at large. Others think that construction site may be paying less attention to safety and safety training during hard times.

Asphalt Roller Operator Dies At New York Road Construction Site

According to WCAX, a road construction accident in Amenia, New York, left one worker dead on Wednesday, July 29. The man, a New York resident, was operating an Ingersoll-Rand asphalt roller when he fell off of the piece of heavy machinery and was then hit by the construction equipment.

New York State Troopers identified the New York construction accident victim as 23-year-old Donald Flood III of Wassaic, New York. The accident took place early on Wednesday afternoon in Dutchess County, about 60 miles from Albany, New York, near 41 Benson Road.

The Dutchess County Sheriff's Office, the county Office of the Medical Examiner, the Wassaic Fire Department and Northern Dutchess Paramedics assisted state police at the scene.

The NY on-the-job accident took place as workers were laying down asphalt on a road construction site. New York officials told reporters that the investigation into this NY construction site accident is continuing. Police are still unsure of why Flood may have fallen off the asphalt machine.

Irish Citizen Dies In Building Site Fall In New York City

A workplace accident at a construction site in New York took the life of an Irish citizen on Friday. Brain Forde, an Irishman in his twenties, fell at a construction site to his death on Friday, June 10. The man was originally from originally from Athenry in Co Galway, Ireland.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that it is providing consular assistance to the man's family. Arrangements are being made to repatriate the man's body to his homeland following the deadly fall accident. The details of the construction site fall accident are unknown at this time.

The death marks the third accidental death of Irish Citizen in the United States in recent weeks -- Ann Coleman, of Abbeyknockmoy near Tuam and her husband, Joe O'Connell, originally from north Kerry, were killed in a car accident in Iowa in June.