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Worker Safety

Northern Highlands
Police & Fire
Convicted Rockland Roofer Agrees To Pay OSHA $687,536 For Endangering Workers At Bergen Site Convicted Rockland Roofer Agrees To Pay OSHA $687,536 For Endangering Workers At Bergen Site
Convicted Rockland Roofer Agrees To Pay Osha $687,536 For Endangering Workers At Bergen Site A roofing company will pay the government $687,536 for leaving workers vulnerable to potentially deadly falls at a Bergen County construction site, OSHA reported. The decision to stop fighting the fines and penalties came roughly a week before ALJ Home Improvement of Rockland County was to go to trial against the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration over conditions at a job site in Ho-Ho-Kus (see photo above). It also comes two months before Jose Lema, ALJ's founder and principal, is due to be sentenced in federal court for the February 2022 death of an employee at a constr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
South Passaic
Police & Fire
Family Of Roofer Who Fell From Passaic County Home Gets $75G From Company That Caused His Death Family Of Roofer Who Fell From Passaic County Home Gets $75G From Company That Caused His Death
Family Of Roofer Who Fell From Passaic County Home Gets $75G From Company That Caused His Death UPDATE: The survivors of a worker who fell to his death from a residential roof in Haledon will receive $75,000 after his employer admitted in federal court this week that his Middlesex County construction company failed to provide any fall protection equipment or training. The unidentified worker was installing insulation for a second-floor subroof in August 2019 when he took a step back and fell more than 20 feet, first onto a scaffold and then to a concrete floor below, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. He was later pronounced dead of a head injury. Despite the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Prince George's
Police & Fire
Worker Falls 50 Feet In Prince George's Industrial Accident (VIDEO) Worker Falls 50 Feet In Prince George's Industrial Accident (VIDEO)
Worker Falls 50 Feet In Prince George's Industrial Accident (Video) An industrial worker is recovering after falling from a worksite in Aquasco. Emergency crews were called to the site in the 25100 block of Chalk Point Road on the afternoon of Thursday, March 30, according to Prince George's County rescue officials. PGFD Technical Rescue Teams and mutual aid partners working an industrial accident, w/ a high angle rescue for an injured worker at 25100 Chalk Point Rd, Aquasco. Patient was transported by MSP medevac with non-life threatening injuries. The injured worker fell approx 50’. pic.twitter.com/ILGNlg7MXH — Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Departm…

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by Annie DeVoe
Montgomery MD
Police & Fire
Silver Spring Apartment Fire Ruled Accidental: Authorities Silver Spring Apartment Fire Ruled Accidental: Authorities
Silver Spring Apartment Fire Ruled Accidental: Authorities A fire that ravaged a Silver Spring apartment building last week hospitalizing more than a dozen people has been ruled accidental and was started by a maintenance worker, county officials said on Monday, March 7.  The worker accidentally cut a gas pipe that he thought was a drainage pipe, sparking the blaze at the Friendly Garden Apartments on Lynttonsville Road, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue (MCFRS) Chief Scott Goldstein said. The cut pipe caused an explosion and a fire to erupt. The exact source, however, remains unknown. The pipes were not labelled…

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by David Cifarelli
Northampton
Police & Fire
Worker Hurt, Residents Relocated Following Lehigh Valley Nursing Home Fire Worker Hurt, Residents Relocated Following Lehigh Valley Nursing Home Fire
Worker Hurt, Residents Relocated Following Lehigh Valley Nursing Home Fire A worker was hurt and several residents were relocated after a dryer at a Lehigh Valley nursing home went up in flames Wednesday morning, authorities said. Nancy Run and Bethlehem Township volunteer fire crews found a fully-involved dryer fire and activated sprinkler as they arrived at Country Meadows Nursing and Rehab on Green Pond Road in Bethlehem around 4:45 a.m., NRFC said. Both crews doused the fire and helped move several residents to other safe areas in the building. One employee suffered a minor injury, and no residents were hurt, the fire company said. “This is another case of a…

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by Valerie Musson
Dauphin
News
Worker Dies At Pennsylvania's Infamous Nuclear Site, Three Mile Island Worker Dies At Pennsylvania's Infamous Nuclear Site, Three Mile Island
Worker Dies At Pennsylvania's Infamous Nuclear Site, Three Mile Island A contractor has died on Three Mile Island during a “material handling accident,” accident to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Londonderry Township emergency medical services and fire crews were called to the power plant in Dauphin County for an accident on Friday around 11 a.m. . The person died at the scene. The worker was outside the radiological controlled area, according to NRC. The victim's identity has not been released. Three Mile Island’s Nuclear plant is currently being dismantled and decommissioned, after Unit 1 was permanently closed in Sept. 2019. Exelon Generation…

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by Jillian Pikora
Nassau
News
Long Island MacArthur Airport Employee Dies While Working On Lights Long Island MacArthur Airport Employee Dies While Working On Lights
Long Island MacArthur Airport Employee Dies While Working On Lights An investigation is underway after one worker was killed, and another injured, at Long Island MacArthur Airport. Michael Jacob, age 51, of Holbrook, was working on runway lights at the airport in Ronkonkoma when he was electrocuted at approximately 2:50 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8, Suffolk County Police said. Jacob was transported by Sayville Community Ambulance to Stony Brook University Hospital where he was pronounced dead. A second employee, Gino Fiermonte, was also shocked while attempting to aid Jacob. Fiermonte, age 49, of Ronkonkoma, and was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital for…

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by Joe Lombardi
Suffolk NY
Police & Fire
Worker Killed In Accident At Long Island Construction Site Worker Killed In Accident At Long Island Construction Site
Worker Killed In Accident At Long Island Construction Site A worker was killed in an accident at a Long Island construction site. The incident happened around 3:25 p.m. on Tuesday, June 15 in Glenwood Landing. Nassau County Police officers responded to a 911 call at 165 Shore Road, where a man was found lying unresponsive on the ground and bleeding from his head. The man, who was 31 years old and an employee working at a construction site, was struck on the head by an unsecured steel beam, said Nassau County Police. The steel beam fell on the man and he became unconscious, according to police. The man was transported to an area hospital by a Nas…

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by Joe Lombardi
Lewisboro
Police & Fire
Worker Trapped In Trench At Construction Site In Westchester Worker Trapped In Trench At Construction Site In Westchester
Worker Trapped In Trench At Construction Site In Westchester Updated story: Worker Dies After Being Trapped In Trench Rescue crews are on the scene of a rescue/recovery effort in Westchester County after a construction worker became trapped beneath 10 feet of dirt when a trench collapsed at a construction site. The incident began around 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 4, on Shore Acres Drive in the Village of Mamaroneck, according to the Village of Mamaroneck Police Department. Emergency crews at the scene requested a vacuum truck to remove the worker from the cave-in.  Mamaroneck police escorted the specialized equipment to the scene in a…

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by Kathy Reakes
Morris
Police & Fire
Morris County Construction Worker Airlifted After 20-Foot Fall From Roof Morris County Construction Worker Airlifted After 20-Foot Fall From Roof
Morris County Construction Worker Airlifted After 20-Foot Fall From Roof A 28-year-old worker was airlifted with serious injuries Wednesday evening after falling approximately 20 feet from the roof of a Long Valley home onto a deck below. The man fell from the roof of the Waldon Road home around 5:30 p.m. and landed on a deck underneath, Washington Police Lt. Mark Niemynski told Daily Voice. Long Valley First Aid Squad arrived and stabilized the worker before he was flown via NorthStar to Morristown Medical Center, authorities said. Additional details were not immediately available.

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by Valerie Musson
Litchfield
Business
COVID-19: Retail Workers Across Country Stage 'Sickout' COVID-19: Retail Workers Across Country Stage 'Sickout'
Covid-19: Retail Workers Across Country Stage 'Sickout' Employees at some of the nation’s largest retailers are staging a one-day “sickout” strike on International Workers Day to protest conditions during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. Hundreds of workers at Amazon warehouses, Target, Whole Foods, and employee shoppers at Instacart and Shipt called in sick on Friday, May 1 in protest of what they described as inadequate safety precautions during the pandemic. According to Target Workers Unite!, which organized the sickout, “foot traffic and guest behavior have been atrocious, putting us at needless risk when greater safety measures are…

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by Zak Failla
Litchfield
Business
COVID-19: Reports Of 'Mass Call Out' Of Employees 'Grossly Exaggerated,' Amazon Says COVID-19: Reports Of 'Mass Call Out' Of Employees 'Grossly Exaggerated,' Amazon Says
Covid-19: Reports Of 'Mass Call Out' Of Employees 'Grossly Exaggerated,' Amazon Says A planned “mass call out” of Amazon employees over safety concerns amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak was “grossly exaggerated,” according to the retail giant. Hundreds of Amazon employees said this week that they have pledged not to go into work, according to worker rights group United for Respect. “Amazon's response to the coronavirus outbreak has unnecessarily put the lives of Amazon employees at increased risk and exposure,"  the group wrote online. "There are now over 130 warehouses where employees have contracted COVID-19 (Coronavirus) including some warehouses with …

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by Zak Failla
Englewood
Police & Fire
Tenafly Firefighters Free Worker In Home Construction Site Fall Tenafly Firefighters Free Worker In Home Construction Site Fall
Tenafly Firefighters Free Worker In Home Construction Site Fall A 55-year-old worker was hospitalized in a 10-foot fall Thursday morning at a Tenafly home construction site. Firefighters got the Newark worker out after he fell into the basement area of a new foundation, with no way out, at the Buckingham Road site just before 9 a.m., police Capt. Michael deMoncada said. The Tenafly Volunteer Ambulance Corps took him to Hackensack University Medical Center with head and shoulder injuries that weren't considered life-threatening, Moncada said. OSHA was notified.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi
Police & Fire
Worker, 19, Cutting Oil Tank Critically Burned In Garfield Flashback Worker, 19, Cutting Oil Tank Critically Burned In Garfield Flashback
Worker, 19, Cutting Oil Tank Critically Burned In Garfield Flashback A 19-year-old worker was critically burned on the lower half of his body after a flashback Tuesday afternoon while he was cutting an oil tank from the ground in Garfield, authorities said. “It appears that as he was cutting the tank with a saw,” Garfield Police Capt. Richard Uram said. “The sparks may have ignited the fuel, causing a flash.” “It does not appear they had a permit to remove the tank at this time,” Uram said. The victim was taken to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston with burns over nearly 50% of his body, responders said. OSHA and a Bergen County Hazardous Materials…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Ridgewood Firefighters Rescue Construction Worker Who Fell 20 Feet Into Basement UPDATE: Ridgewood Firefighters Rescue Construction Worker Who Fell 20 Feet Into Basement
Update: Ridgewood Firefighters Rescue Construction Worker Who Fell 20 Feet Into Basement Firefighters rescued a worker who fell 20 or so feet off a ladder Monday morning into the basement of a new home under construction in Ridgewood. Rescuers brought a Stokes basket and ropes along after the 10:30 a.m. mishap on North Monroe Street. After they got him out through a window well, the Ridgewood Volunteer Ambulance Corps rushed the 28-year-old worker to the trauma unit at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson. He complained of pain in his back, leg and hand, Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. A paramedic team from The Valley Hospital also responded. Boyd A. Lovin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wilton
Police & Fire
Employer Attacks Man Who Refused To Work On Unsafe Scaffold, Wilton Police Say Employer Attacks Man Who Refused To Work On Unsafe Scaffold, Wilton Police Say
Employer Attacks Man Who Refused To Work On Unsafe Scaffold, Wilton Police Say An employer is facing multiple charges after police say he assaulted and threatened a worker who refused to work in unsafe conditions. Wilton Police received a complaint of an assault that occurred Wednesday, Dec. 5. The victim alleged that he was working for his employer at a residence in Wilton. The victim said his employer, 36-year-old William Escobar of Bridgeport, physically assaulted him because he refused to work on an unsafe scaffold. The victim claims Escobar kneed him in the thigh and threw him to the ground before kicking Escobar kicked him in the head and right forearm as he tri…

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by Valerie Musson