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Boy Falls Into NYC Sewer – Negligence and Personal Injury Claims

Gary Silverstein April 4, 2014

Brooklyn officials and public infrastructure workers are looking at safety for local sewer systems, after a 10-year-old boy fell into a manhole in a Borough Park neighborhood. The New York Daily News reported January 14 on the incident that occurred that morning. According to reports, the steel manhole somehow weakened and gave way, and the boy fell about 20 feet into water. Experts noted that the lack of high water volume and velocity helped to prevent the victim from being washed away into the sewer system. Reporters also noted that the boy slowed his descent by making contact with the sides of the tunnels. Verizon

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Overview of New State Scaffolding Law

Robert Wolff April 2, 2014

New York state scaffolding laws have helped to protect workers for many years, but now some advocates of reform have these laws in their crosshairs. Reporting in the Legislative Gazette February 17 shows trade groups and others contending a link between existing scaffolding laws and extremely high insurance premiums for construction projects. Some claim that existing scaffolding law provides for personal injury payouts even if the worker was at fault, and that these kinds of payouts take a lot of money from taxpayers. Some of the more extreme claims suggest that having strong compensation guidelines makes some projects less feasible or unfairly affects small businesses,

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Speed a likely factor in 95-car pileup

Gary Silverstein April 1, 2014

posted in Car Accidents on Monday, April 1, 2013. In New York City, rain or snow can snarl traffic and cause collisions. A massive chain-reaction crash in another state, however, was recently caused by heavy fog. Ninety-five cars were involved in 17 total crashes along Interstate 77 in Virginia. Three people died in the pileup and 25 others were injured. The pileup began around 1:15 p.m. on Easter Sunday. Starting in the early morning hours, signs warned people about heavy fog. Authorities say people were likely traveling at dangerous speeds for the conditions. This massive collision shows how important it is for people to drive

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LaGuardia: Plane, Truck “Bump” – Accidents and Back Injuries

Robert Wolff March 31, 2014

Even minor aviation safety incidents are carefully tracked and documented, and get a lot of public attention as FAA heads and other public officials look at increasing safety for air travel. One example is a procedural mistake at New York’s La Guardia airport, where CNN affiliates reported February 15 on a kind of ‘fender-bender’ between a Delta Airlines plane and one of the trucks de-icing the airplanes. Although no injuries were reported, the flight was delayed and other safety precautions were taken. Airport Safety Precautions The response to even one of these minor incidents shows how seriously airport officials take the issue of an on-site

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NYC Metro-North Train Crash Prompts Safety Assessment

Gary Silverstein March 29, 2014

A tragic train crash and derailment from late last year is driving safety improvements to New York City rail department safety protocols. A Bronx commuter train crash killed four people in December – now, public officials are looking at the factors that contributed to the accident, and how to improve safety in that area. One critical aspect of safety improvement is signage. Reports like this one from Fox News show that the train in question was traveling at over 80 miles an hour on a curve when the accident happened. Apparently, a 30 miles an hour limit is in place, but signage may have been

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Snow Impedes Visibility

Robert Wolff March 27, 2014

Many of us tend to think of this year’s hard winter as a challenge in extremely urban areas like downtown New York City, but it also has its effects out in other more rural areas of the state. Reporting from February from local broadcast affiliate WENY shows snowfall and other factors impacting the community of Elmira, New York, just above the Pennsylvania state line and not too far from the Great Lakes area, south of Rochester and Syracuse. Some of the challenges reported in Elmira are emblematic of what happened in a lot of communities around the state. Locals reported on

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Tragic Snow-Clearing Fatality: Pregnant Woman Headed to OBGYN

Gary Silverstein March 25, 2014

Some of the saddest kinds of accidents and those that are most difficult deal with are also painful reminders that many businesses and local governments need stricter rules and regulations about the operation of vehicles and heavy machinery. The Gothamist reported February on a chilling case where a pregnant woman was killed by a snowplow in a Brooklyn supermarket parking lot. The details around this horrific event are hard to read about, and hard to hear about. They remind us of the importance of safety protocols around those common seasonal activities involved in public maintenance, tasks like plowing snow, sweeping streets and paving roads. They

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Curbing Cabbies Who Hurt Pedestrians: New “Cooper’s Law” in NY

Gary Silverstein March 23, 2014

New York City may be getting a new law that further punishes cab drivers who injure or kill pedestrians and cyclists. Recent news reports from the Gothamist and the New York Post show efforts by councilperson Helen Rosenthal, (Upper West Side) to propose this legislative change that would automatically revoke a cab driver’s license if someone is injured or killed in an incident where the cab driver fails to yield. The records also cover the naming of this law “Cooper’s Law” as a tribute to a nine-year-old boy killed in a local accident where failure to yield was involved. New York City Drivers and Responsibility

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