Personal Injury Law

Crane Collapse on 91st Street and 1st Ave Kills At Least Two People

A crane that was working on a high rise under construction at 333 E. 91st St., collapsed this morning, killing at least 2 people, one of them a construction worker. The collapse of this enormous crane came only 2 ½ months after another crane collapse accident that killed seven people about two miles south of this location.

The building under construction was the Azure, a high-rise complex at 333 East 91st Street. A stop work order issued for the site earlier this month was fully rescinded yesterday morning, records show. Since construction had been sped up in November, the site has been the subject of 23 complaints to the Department of Buildings, records show.

Mayor Bloomberg commented on the situation, explaining that safety, not speed, was the most important issue in construction citywide.

?I don?t need any developer or union leader or anybody else telling me about the consequences of slowing things down,? Bloomberg said. ?Nobody wants the economy to grow more than me, but we?re not going to kill people.?

We offer our condolences to the families of those affected by this tragedy. As more time passes and investigations are completed by the city it will become more clear as to the exact cause of this horrible construction accident. One thing is for certain, something must be done about the rash of construction related injuries in our city.

Our New York construction accident lawyers only represent individuals who are injured by negligence; injured in workplace accidents or by faulty products, equipment or machinery; or through the negligent maintenance of property. The firm has achieved great success in these specialties which are all bound together by a common thread: an individual has suffered serious physical or emotional injury.

If you or a loved one has been injured in a construction accident contact the New York Construction Accident Attorneys at Wingate, Russotti & Shapiro.

Full post as published by New York Injury Talk Blog on May 30, 2008 (boomark / email).