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A bicyclist died and another one suffered serious personal injury after a boat trailer that was not properly secured slipped off of a truck in Staten Island, NYC

A 21 year old woman died and  her 22 year old friend was  seriously injured in a bicycle accident in New York City.  The two women were riding their bicycles on Hylan Blvd. in Great Kills yesterday afternoon around 4:30 pm when they were struck by a boat trailer that had…

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Failure to diagnose Borderline Personality Disorder can be Medical Malpractice that can have fatal consequences

In 2001, Pam Tusiani died as a result of Medical Malpractice in New York  after she fatally  reacted to Parnate, an antidepressant she had been prescribed by a treatment center that was providing medical care without a license. The young woman was suffering from  borderline personality disorder, a disease often misdiagnosed. Using…

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A 27-year-old bicyclist died in a hit-and-run accident on City Island

A 27 year old woman was killed in  a bicycle accident  on the City Island bridge in the Bronx, NYC. The police are looking for the driver of a 2015 White Hyundai who struck 27 year old Gabriella Aguilar and sped away, leaving her to die on the road. See video below…

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Two people died this weekend in two separate New York motorcycle accidents

A 29 year old man and a 27 year old woman died in two  separate motorcycle crashes early Saturday night in  New York City. The first motorcycle accident occurred in Brooklyn  around 1:15 AM. The driver of the motorcycle tried to  pass a van by squeezing between the parked cars…

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A 30 year old construction worker died after falling from scaffolding in Manhattan, the second hard hat killed this week on a New York City Construction Site

Another construction worker died in New York yesterday. 30 year old Juan Cerezo was doing facade work on a scaffold on the 14th floor when he fell and landed on the sidewalk shed. The fatal accident happened on the Upper East Side of Manhattan at 363 East 76th Street around 4:00 pm…

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The American Journal of Industrial Medicine published a special issue dedicated to the prevention of construction accidents

Among all industry sectors in the U.S.,  construction has the highest number of fatal injuries with  more than 800 construction workers dying every year.  A  lot of  research has been done and written on construction safety and health but the challenge is to ensure that  promising research findings become safer practices…

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Drivers who injure or kill pedestrians who had the right of way in New York City will not be strictly liable for seriously injuring or killing pedestrians in a crosswalk anymore

Vision Zero’s “Right of Way” law makes it a misdemeanor for drivers who killed or injured a pedestrian because they failed to yield. However after 6 bus drivers were arrested last year, TWU, the bus drivers’ union started a heavy campaign to protect bus drivers from the law. Yesterday a federal…

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OSHA fines New York high end furniture store Idea Nuova for $84,000 for unsafe work conditions at its Fifth Ave showroom

Death or personal injuries such as burns, smoke inhalation and wounds from falling merchandise are among the risks faced every day by New York High end store Idea Nuova’s employees. According to OSHA, the aisles are clogged with merchandise and, at the time of the inspection, an emergency exit was blocked by…

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In order to protect New Yorkers from future outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease, a new law has been enacted to track and manage the maintenance of cooling towers, fluid coolers and evaporative condensers in New York City

After a dozen died and over 100 more suffered serious personal injury from Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks this summer in New York City, Local Law 77 of 2015 was recently enacted to identify, regulate and inspect all buildings using a cooling tower.  As a first step building owners have until September 17, 2015…

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To mitigate risks of personal injury or wrongful death, child welfare workers should always make sure that red-flag concerns are always at the front and center of a child’ file

By simply noting red-flag concerns front and center of  a patient’s file, child welfare workers can protect children from being seriously abused, injured or killed. In a recent article in Youth Today, Daniel Pollack, a professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University in New York City and a frequent…

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