Two 19 year old Colgate University students were killed in a plane crash yesterday afternoon in Morrisville, NY. Ryan Adams and Cathryn (Carey) Depuy , both Ridgefield natives. The pair took off from Morrisville airport and flew 10 miles before crashing in a wooded area. They were killed instantly. Read more in the NY Daily News
The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released the preliminary data from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) for 2014. There where 4,659 fatal work injuries in 2014. This is the highest number of fatalities since 2011.
This high number of deaths on work sites is mostly explained by a revitalized economy and a decline in the unemployment rate in 2014. The rate of workers fatalities stayed the same as the previous year with 3.3 fatal work injuries per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers. Over the long term, the rate of worker fatalities has been slowly decreasing over the years indicating safer work conditions globally.
40% of the fatalities were caused by a transportation accident. Among transportation related fatalities, more than half of them where accidents on roadways. Accidents involving pedestrian workers being struck by vehicles represented the second largest category of fatal occupational injuries caused by transportation accidents.
Two construction workers were injured after they fell from a building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan yesterday afternoon. The construction workers where working on the $50 million renovation of the World Diamond Tower building on Fifth Avenue and W. 47th St. They fell from the second floor mezzanine inside the building. The FDNY has asked the City Department of Buildings to investigate whether a partial collapse of the mezzanine led to the fall. Read more in The New York Daily News
The construction accident happened in a famous building of the Diamond District. Picture courtesy of Google map
Derrick Walters died in a motorcycle accident as he was being pursued by two police officers last weekend in Brooklyn, NYC. (See previous blog). The police are investigating if the two Brooklyn cops violated NYPD policy on vehicle pursuits. In the mean time the two officers were stripped of their shields and guns. Read more in the New York Daily News
The way pediatricians are working on preventing personal injury for children and teenagers is evolving. There was a time when doctors would be taught to provide the same advice for any family for each type of injury. For example in the field of teen driver crash injury prevention, each teen would be treated the same way.
In a recent blog post published by the Center for Injury and Prevention, Flaura Koplin Winston, a pediatrician, looks at the case of two teen drivers who got caught for speeding. The first teen was diagnosed with ADHD and speeding was just one of many other dangerous behaviors. He needed proper medication and behavioral therapy. The second teen was late for school and got a ticket speeding. All he needed was an alarm clock.
Read the complete post.
We are proud to announce that for the tenth consecutive year our attorneys have been named to the New York Super Lawyers list. In 2015 nine of our lawyers were selected. These are: Ben B. Rubinowitz(Top 100), Anthony H. Gair, Howard Hershenhorn, Jeffrey B. Bloom, Richard M. Steigman, Jerome I. Katz, Stephen H. Mackauf and Christopher L. Sallay(Top 100). Peter J. Saghir was again selected to the Rising Stars list.
Our firm is located in Manhattan and handles all types of catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases from traffic accidents, construction accidents, medical malpractice to product liability in New York and New Jersey.
Since 1919, the firm has built is reputation as one of the top injury law firms in the United States by limiting its practice to a select group of serious and substantial tort cases so that extensive personal attention and meticulous trial preparation are afforded to each of our clients on all matters. The results speak for themselves as for the last 10 years our firm has obtained verdicts or settlements exceeding $1 million for more than 450 cases.
The NYPD has been handing out flyers to elderly pedestrians in Southern Brooklyn recently in an effort to reduce the high number of elderly pedestrian fatalities in the area. The flyer is providing tips on how to navigate the streets more safely. According to recent statistics more than half of the pedestrians killed in traffic accidents in South Brooklyn recently were elderly. Read more in DNA Info
Since the de Blasio administration launched The Vision Zero program to reduce traffic injuries and fatalities in New York, jaywalking tickets have been increasing significantly. By the end of last year, according to NYPD statistics, jaywalking summonses had nearly quadrupled the average for the previous six year. In a long article, the Village Voice looks at the history of Jaywalking in the city since 1920 and question the manner it is being enforced by the NYPD these days. Read the complete article here
Failure to diagnose or delay to treat herpes simplex in the eye area can result in serious personal injury such as episcleritis, keratopathy, iritis, blepharitis, conjunctivitis, uveitis, keratitis, retinitis, optic neuritis, glaucoma, proptosis, cicatricial lid retractions, and extraocular muscle palsies. In “case of the month: a lesion near the eye”, the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants looks at the case of a 19-year-old man who visited his healthcare provider with erythema and irritation of the skin adjacent to his right eye. The patient noted the irritation for the first time after a military exercise in a sandy environment. Read the case here
One day before he died in a construction accident, 19 year old Fernando Vanegas told his mom that he was worried about the safety of the construction site after a retaining wall designed to hold back the soil around the base of a building where he was working had almost fallen. The wall fell the day after killing Fernando and badly injuring two other construction workers. The construction site locatedat 656 Myrtle Avenue, near Franklin Avenue, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn had been previously vacated because of structural problems but in recent months the contractor received a permit for remediation work and the site was reopened. Read more in the New York Times
656 Myrtle Ave before the collapse of the wall
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