Halloween has over the years morphed from a night when kids got dressed up as cute ghosts, pirates and goblins into something else entirely: a monster party night for young adults and others. While there's nothing wrong with a good time, of course, virtually everything can go wrong when the revelry includes alcohol and driving.
The damage done in New York City by drunk drivers
Every season of the year has its own big holidays: summer has the Fourth of July and Labor Day. Autumn is filled with Halloween and Thanksgiving. Winter gives us Christmas, New Year's and the celebration of Martin Luther King's birthday, while the end of spring is marked by Memorial Day.
A look back at New York City car accident history
It has been 115 years since Henry H. Bliss stepped down from a New York City streetcar and into the pages of history books. The unfortunate man was run over by an electric taxi cab, dying of his injuries the next day.
We can help you after a scaffolding fall
The United States Department of Labor is clear on its Occupational Safety and Health Administration website: "Falls are the leading cause of fatalities in the construction industry." Some New York City families of deceased construction workers know this truth all too well.
Commercial trucks: lopsided cause of serious accidents
I-87, I-95 and I-78 are just three of the interstate highway abbreviations with which New York City residents have a love-hate relationship. Yes, we sometimes get from Point A to Point B faster by taking an interstate, but the highways are often frustrating for drivers experiencing slowed traffic.
Tons of concrete crush construction worker in New York City
As if reaching for help, an arm was visible from beneath a concrete slab weighing thousands of pounds. There was no one who could help the worker pinned under the massive, toppled section of a building adjacent to a Midtown Manhattan construction site where he had worked.
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$2.1 million settlement
for 33-year old electrician who fell from ladder while attempting to fit heavy cable into crown box when cable sprung back and struck him, causing him to suffer left shoulder injury with impingement.
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$1.6 million settlement
for 38-year old electrician who slipped and fell on debris on stairway with resulting cervical herniated disc and aggravation of pre-existing arthritic changes.
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$2.55 million settlement
for 42-year old electrician who fell into an uncovered, unprotected hole and suffered a severe low back injury with herniated disc(s) that required surgery at L4-5 and L5-S1 levels.
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$1.75 million settlement
for 26-year old construction worker who fell through opening in roof and fractured his wrist, requiring surgery with open reduction and internal fixation, external fixation device, and eventual fusion.
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$2.5 million settlement
for 38-year old female electrician (with history of prior neck injury) who tripped on uneven Masonite protective floor covering, and suffered neck injury with herniated discs requiring cervical fusion.
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$1.2 million settlement
during trial for 40-year old sheet metal worker who was struck in the neck and shoulder by an air conditioning unit and suffered herniated cervical discs and cervical radiculopathy.
