Some of the things you see on a construction site or in some other workplace settings may seem like small details — until something terrible

New York City’s industrial regulations and norms are built to extensively protect workers in excavation sites. They mention extensive shoring and bracing requirements for trenches

Under the specific terms of New York’s labor law, scaffolds have to meet various criteria in order to be considered safe. Lack of proper safeguards

There’s been a lot of controversy over the years about the New York scaffolding law, also called “New York Labor Law 240.” It’s something that

Sometimes, construction injury cases can be built around how a work area is set up. The bigger and more complex the workspace is, the more

Setting up scaffolding is inherently risky and without specific safeguards and correct procedures, it really leaves workers exposed to a variety of real work hazards.

Those with close ties to construction and trades industries understand that construction workers deal with significant risks at work. Some of those risks are compounded

Any time a company sets up a construction site in a busy urban area such as New York City, there’s a clear responsibility to secure

A construction project is often a detailed collaboration between numerous parties. That’s part of what makes construction law so complex. A report, “21st Century Construction/20th

The law is often a wordy business and construction law is no exception. One interesting provision of New York labor Law illustrates this well. It’s