Rise in accidents reveals dark side of New York’s building surge

TractoPart | Jan 14, 2016 | 0 comments

©Bloomberg The number of workers injured in New York City construction accidents rose by more than 50 per cent last year, stoking fears that builders are cutting corners to cash in on the rally in the metropolitan area’s trillion-dollar-plus property market. Demand for residential accommodation in the city that never sleeps has pushed the median

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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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NYC construction deaths surging due to “overwhelmed” regulators, Times investigative report finds

TractoPart | Dec 11, 2015 | 0 comments

An investigative report from the New York Times has found that the number of construction workers killed on the job in New York City has surged in the last two years, far outpacing the rate of the city’s new construction in that time. Calling safety conditions on NYC jobsites “woefully inadequate,” the Times report says many of the

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