From the NY Times:More than 30 construction workers died in falls and other events on job sites in New York City last year, the federal Department of Labor reported Wednesday. Chiefly because of that spike, the overall number of workers who died on the job in New York in 2008 was 90.
The toll of on-the-job fatalities, which had been on a downward trend for the past decade, was up 11 percent from 81 in 2007, according to the report, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Among the various ways New Yorkers were killed at work, the biggest increase was in falls, which claimed 29 people, up from 23 in 2007. All told, there were 31 fatalities related to construction, up from 24 in 2007.
Murders in the workplace also rose, to 18 from 15 in 2007, the report showed. But the killers used guns less often: the number of workers shot to death declined to 10 from 12.
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4 comments:
Need some perspective?
How many NYer's died in Afganistand and Iraq last year?
Bloomberg pushed a reckless tsunami of community crushing development and way too many people died, too many mass evictions and the death of way too many small businesses.
Vote this guy out of office.
The only way to do so is to vote for Thompson.
thanks,
Suzannah B. Troy
Anonymous said...
Need some perspective?
How many NYer's died in Afganistand and Iraq last year?
Sunday, November 01, 2009
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Relevance to this posting?
in all fairness Gary, about 58% of the comments on the blog tend to be related tenuously to the corresponding post at best.
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