Injuries to the eyes An injury to the eye can happen in many ways. Flying shrapnel in a road accident can hit the eye and damage the lens. Eye ball can be damaged and injured in a direct and violent blow. The tissues surrounding the eye, the cavity around the eye ball and the nerves can also be damaged permanently. Such injuries can paralyze life putting the victim’s personal and professional life in chaos. Loss of vision in one or both eyes can hinder the ability to work and earn. Wood, cement, glass, stone, and metal objects can pierce the eye and cause serious injuries.

For a number of work activities including excavation, demolition and certain kinds of construction activities, New York labor law provides a range of safeguards that have to be applied to such types of work. Let’s take a closer look at how New York lawmakers have provided for worker safety. Pedestrian Areas One part of the NY labor law on excavation and other similar work activities involves pedestrian areas: “Where pedestrians use an existing public sidewalk or other public thoroughfare…(near a work site)…, the side of such existing thoroughfare which is next to or faces toward the work shall be protected or guarded. Such protection shall