The City of New York is getting serious about construction regulation and using the full extent of the law to punish those who have acted negligently on the jobsite. Last year, Mayor Bill De Blasio issued a new law requiring all construction workers to undergo, at minimum, 40 hours of safety training. In 2016, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. successfully convicted a construction foreman of criminally negligent homicide and reckless endangerment after a laborer was killed in a trench collapse that he was overseeing. Earlier this month, DA Vance announced assault charges against a superintendent and branch manager after 2 men suffer horrific injuries on their jobsite.
Read moreEZ-Rig Provides a Solution for Lifting Heavy Objects in Hard to Reach Areas on the Construction Job Site
Construction jobs are no stranger to having large heavy objects involved, but many times the solution is a full crane that requires an operator and needs to be scheduled weeks in advance. That could be overkill if there’s only a few items that need to be lifted.
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