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Tenants’ Warnings About E-Bikes Ignored in Recent Midtown Fire
For months, tenants in the Midtown East luxury apartment building at 429 East 52nd Street in Manhattan had been warning its management about e-bikes parked in the hallway outside the unit where the fire erupted, THE CITY reports. The fire injured dozens of victims and is just one of nearly 200 so far this year …
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Construction Scaffold Fall Spurs Demands for Worksite Safety
The recent construction accident death of 27-year-old Raúl Telemena Puli of Queens after the worker fell from a scaffold at a Brooklyn worksite is spurring demands for better worksite safety. According to a report in THE CITY, Telemena Puli was installing a 30-foot-long I-beam when he slipped and fell 20 feet, before the beam landed …
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Building Collapse on Long Island Injures Several Workers
At least six workers on Long Island were hospitalized — at least three of them in critical condition — after a construction accident the afternoon of Nov. 3 when a building collapsed on top of them. According to a PIX11 news report, the storage building at 840 Middle Country Road near the border of Smithtown …
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Man Seriously Injured in Brooklyn Pedestrian Accident
A 50-year-old man suffered severe injuries after he was struck by the driver of a van while crossing a street in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. According to a report on Streetsblog.com, the man was crossing 15th Street in the west crosswalk when the van hit him as it turned from northbound Seventh Avenue onto …
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What are the Effects of Brachial Plexus Palsy or Erb’s Palsy?
Brachial plexus palsy or Erb’s palsy refers to muscle weakness in the arm or shoulder that can be caused by an injury that is sustained during birth. It often occurs in infants who have suffered some type of injury to the nerves of the brachial plexus during delivery because of excessive pressure applied or due to …
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