Its sad that during Construction Safety Week a New York construction worker suffered and construction related fall. Thomas J. Lueck of the New York Times reports:
Just one day after thousands of workers gathered to mourn the loss of the 13 people killed in construction accidents in New York City this year, a steel worker was critically injured on Tuesday when he fell 25 feet from a building under construction on East 29th Street in Manhattan.
Lueck claims:
Mr. Gunn fell to a concrete slab, fracturing his safety helmet and losing consciousness, according to witnesses.
The article continues:
The city and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration are looking into the cause of several fatal accidents.
Hopefully, as the Buildings Department cracks down and New York City begins to take safety more seriously, our cities construction workers will see a day in which safety is at the forefront of building projects rather than an afterthought.