Friday, April 25, 2008

Worker die from fall in NYC

It seem to have happened again this another construction worker has fallen to his death from an East Side building on Monday when a safety strap system intended to secure him to the building failed, the authorities stated. Intial report shows that the worker Kevin Kelly who is 25 years old fell from the 23rd fall to the 14th floor balcony as it reported by the New York Times, at the time before his death Kelly was said to be installing windows at a Skip to next paragraphcondominium tower which is under construction when he fell. This construction site has been cited by city inspectors for 25 code violations during the last year, city officials are saying, and also they are saying that Kelly’s safety strap had a failure if we going to give someone a job as dangerous as this why aren’t the gears given to these workers are made sure that they are properly and adequately safe for these construction workers. It also said that their will be an investigation of the methods the “crews used to install safety strap. I know for a fact by watching the News that there has been a lot of fatal accident on constructions sites because proper safety codes aren’t being followed or implemented, an article I read stated that ten people have been killed in high-rise construction accidents since January, and Jeff just posted an article on the seven who died on March 8 when a 200-foot crane collapsed at another East Side condominium project, demolishing a four-story town house on East 50th Street. All these deaths have sparks criticism of city safety rules and enforcement. To me it seems that the department of building isn’t taking these deaths seriously because no change has been done really. I feel that the project manager and Alexico Group which is a development company isn’t doing enough to protect their workers, Alexico Group have received citations for 38 building code violations which it being stated been issued to them since July 2005. Also is being said by department officials that 25 of the citations were issued since work on the building began in April 2007 and that the others were issued during demolition and other work to prepare for the construction. When does it stop these carelessness and negligence? There is no respect for person here I think Kant theory would apply to this case here.


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