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Alex NYC crane accident. This was shot by a 14 year old who was visiting New York for the first time for a Model UN event. The whole group walked ...
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Fatal Crane Accident Leaves New York Construction Accident Lawyers ...
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New York must bring way it licenses operators of construction cranes in line ... More than two years after a series of horrifying crane accidents, New York's procedures for licensing operators remain stalled in a bygone era. Although the towering hoists are taller, heavier, more varied and more complicated than ever before, |
“Spider-Man” on-set accident strands three works six stories off the ground
The production grips were stranded on a crane six stories off of the ground when the piece of equipment “suddenly stopped functioning,” according to the NY Post. The paper adds that the grips “were trying to build a platform for a camera on the roof of
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New York real estate board calls for national certification The Building Trades Department of the national AFL-CIO's investigation into the accidents also recommended a national license. "For the national certification, you have to be tested on the particular type of crane you are going to work on. In NYC |
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On-Site Safety-Inspector Rule Gets a Second Look The regulation was introduced in 1983 in response to a fatal crane accident in 1982. At the time it covered major construction sites for large buildings. In the 1990s, it began to be applied to facade renovation projects as well. |
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Buildings department issues clarification on safety rule Owners found this rate frustrating, given the large amount of down time the safety inspectors enjoyed. The legislation about safety inspectors was passed in 1983 after a crane accident the previous year. This clarification will save developers a lot of |
Proposed rule change for cranes meets criticism
Anyone who knows anything about Steven Spinola, President of the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), knows that he is a union-buster. In order to increase the profits for the developers that his organization represents, he wants the city to relax the rules for obtaining a license to operate a crane in New York City so contractors can bring in inexperienced, non-union crane operators who will work for less money than union crane operators. This may save the developers money, but it will drastically increase the likelihood of future crane accidents.
Those recent accidents in Manhattan, which resulted in the deaths of Wayne Bliedner and Donald Leo, two members of IUOE Local 14, were caused by faulty equipment/rigging, not by operator error. Spinola and his fellow union-busters knows this, but instead of questioning the business practices of the owner of those cranes, they decided to use these accidents as subterfuge to push for the weakening of the requirements to obtain a NYC Department of Buildings Hoist Machine Operator license, which will greatly weaken the crane operator’s union by causing an influx of inexperienced non-union crane operators from out of state. REBNY doesn’t care about the extraordinary skill of union crane operators and Local 14′s exemplary safety record. All they care about is the additional money they will make if they successfully bust the crane operator’s union.
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During the time I was collecting, from left to right, the images that I would later stitch together into this composite panorama, Sunshine started that coin-operated claw game machine and she won that Cookie Monster. Her first coin, her first try. It took about twelve seconds, I guess. The...
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During the time I was collecting, from left to right, the images that I would later stitch together into this composite panorama, Sunshine started that coin-operated claw game machine and she won that Cookie Monster. Her first coin, her first try. It took about twelve seconds, I guess. The...