Construction Accident Vigil
A vigil was held last week in the Southampton Village are of Long Island for a construction worker who had been killed when a concrete wall collapsed on him. An inspection of the area after the accident found that the wall that fell on the worker was not properly supported.
"Unless every worker can work safely, then no worker can work safely," Suffolk Legislature Deputy Presiding Officer Vivian Viloria-Fisher (D-Setauket) told the gathering, speaking first in English and then in Spanish. "We have to be concerned that everyone who goes out to do a day’s work, who also is a human being, is protected."
Sunday’s vigil was sponsored by the Immigrant Worker Occupational Health and Safety Committee of the Workplace Project and the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, two groups active in lobbying for worker safety.