A NYC hard hat who was installing a crane died after the counter weight he was setting fell on him. 34 year old Gregory Echevarria was part of a crew installing a crane at a luxury residential development located at 570 Broome Street in Soho early Saturday morning. A little…
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Student fatally fell from Bell Tower at Fordham Univeristy
A student fell to her death in New York after trying to climb to the top of the Bell Tower at Fordham University. 22 year old Sydney Monfries was among a group of students who, at 3:00 am on Sunday morning decided to climb to the top of the Keating…
23 year old construction worker falls to his death in Brooklyn, NYC
A young construction worker fatally fell from a building in New York City last Wednesday. 23 year old Erik Mendoza was replacing bricks underneath a water tower located on the rooftop of 1 Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights when he fell off the building. A Mexican immigrant, Mendoza had arrived…
Fall fatalities at record high on US construction sites
887 workers lost their life after falling at their job sites in 2017 according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is the highest number of fall deaths ever recorded by the BLS since the agency started to track these numbers almost 30 years ago.…
One dead and one injured in truck accident in the Bronx, NYC
The driver of a tractor trailer died in an accident in New York City yesterday afternoon. According to the police, 63 year old Atlas Banks may have suffered a heart attack while he was driving his Freightliner tractor trailer Thursday afternoon in the Bronx. As he was making a left…
Decline of ATV injuries and deaths over the last 10 years
93,800 people were injured in an ATV accident and treated in a hospital in 2017 compared to 150,900 in 2007. 295 died in 2017 in an ATV accident compared to 832 in 2007. While still being dangerous and accounting for a significant number of injuries and deaths to adults and…
Creating a Winning Frame: From Cross to Final Argument
In an article published Today in the New York Law Journal, NYC Personal Injury Attorneys Ben Rubinowitz, Evan Torgan and Peter Saghir discuss trial techniques to secure winning verdicts. One of these techniques is to FRAME an issue that can be explored during cross examination, reinforced during final argument and…
Construction worker on scaffold killed by falling stone in New York
A stone fell on the head of a NYC construction worker and killed him on Monday. 51 year old Nelson Salinas from Queens was on a scaffold, repairing the facade of an Upper East Side residential building in Manhattan when the accident occurred. A delivery man saw him dangling…
Police release video of speeding hit and run driver accused of striking a 14 year old girl in Brooklyn, NYC
A terrifying video surveillance footage showing a speeding car striking a young pedestrian in the crosswalk in New York City was released by the police in the hope of finding the car driver. The video shows a Dodge Challenger racing down 47th Street, a residential street in Borough Park, and…
The pedestrian carnage continues in New York City
Two more pedestrians died in traffic accidents in NYC at the end of last week. One was hit by a bus and the other one by two cars. A total of 51 pedestrians and cyclists died in traffic accidents since the beginning of the year, an increase of 30% compared…