Crane Collapse Contractor Indicted
The owner of the crane that collapsed in March last year has been charged with criminally negligent homicide.
Posted 09/04/08 in Daily Intel
Accidents
Another Construction-Worker Death
This time it was a worker at a tower on 41st Street and Eleventh Avenue. It’s unclear why the scaffolding gave way, but the result was a deadly plunge of 40 stories.
Posted 03/21/08 in Daily Intel
It Happened This Week
Old Lady Nearly Killed by Hotel Shower Is Angry in $100 Million Kinds of Ways
First 79-year-old Ethel Tropez endured the floods of Hurricane Katrina in her hometown of Live Oak, Texas (no, we are not making these names up), and then she comes to New York City, all refugee style, and is promptly scalded to within an inch of her life by her shower at the swanky Chandler Hotel in midtown.
Posted 03/20/08 in Daily Intel
Developing
A Look at High-rise Disasters, and the City's Baby Steps to Safety (Updated!)
Behold a timeline of high-rise accidents over the past few years in New York and what the Department of Buildings has done each time in response to make us all (slightly) safer.
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