USA: PROPOSAL: NYC SHOULD STOP IGNORING CONSTRUCTION DEATHS

TractoPart | Jan 10, 2017 | 0 comments

Crain’s New York reports State Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal has proposed legislation that would change how the city counts and reports deaths on construction jobsites. Crain’sreported in September that the construction-death count that the city Department of Buildings disseminates is not acccurate. In 2015, more than a third of deaths counted by the federal government

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TWO NEW YORK WORKERS CRUSHED BY BEAM IN QUEENS CRANE ACCIDENT

TractoPart | Nov 23, 2016 | 0 comments

Workers on a jobsite at 81-10 134th Steet in Briarwood, New York, were hoisting a 30-foot eyebeam while working at a six-story tall structure this morning when the beam became unstable and bumped into a building, causing it to swing out of control. Around 12:10 p.m. the crane cable snapped, the beam fell, smashed into

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NYC Construction Costs Grew For A Third Year Running Amid Building Boom

TractoPart | Mar 17, 2016 | 0 comments

The cost of construction in New York City increased at about five percent for a third year running,The Real Deal first reported based on a new report published by the New York Building Congress (NYBC). The rise in costs is still nowhere near what it was prior to the financial market collapse in 2008.

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CENTURY OLD DECAYING GAS LINES MAY BE ‘TICKING TIME BOMBS’

TractoPart | Jan 11, 2016 | 0 comments

Federal data says 85,000 miles of bare-metal and cast iron gas mains carry natural gas to communities in the U.S. Many of these lines in the densely populated Northeast are more than a century old. Mark McDonald, a natural gas expert who investigates gas explosions, says aging mains like those found under New York City

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7 train construction will give NYC riders more headaches in 2016

TractoPart | Dec 20, 2015 | 0 comments

JAMES KEIVOM/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Good luck catching a 7 train for a number of weekends during the year. No. 7 train riders who suffered through nearly a dozen weekend closures this year are in store for more pain in 2016. The MTA is closing down 7 service between Manhattan and Queens for eight weekends

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