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Since I have moved here two cranes have fallen, and three workers have fallen from construction sites and died. I have only lived here a year. Is this just part of construction in the city? Or are there a bunch of construction companies that just don't know what they are doing?
This is NOT the norm in NYC. This HAS been happening in the past few years, sadly. Likely a result of too many sites and too few inspectors, along with the construction boom.
Since I have moved here two cranes have fallen, and three workers have fallen from construction sites and died. I have only lived here a year. Is this just part of construction in the city? Or are there a bunch of construction companies that just don't know what they are doing?
What type of education do the the people that are inspecting the construction sites have? What about the on-site people in charge? Are they engineers, or people with building science degrees? Or did they start out as workers and work their way up do you think?
I believe you have to have an engineering degree to be a NYC building inspector. The problem seems to be that NO ONE is inspecting the sites. With the last accident it had supposedly been inspected the day or two before but the inspector falsified the report and had never gone to the site.
Yea.. last year, they started having to put up the company's number so you could call for unsafe conditions due to the inspectors being very lax with their inspections.
Yea.. last year, they started having to put up the company's number so you could call for unsafe conditions due to the inspectors being very lax with their inspections.
This isn't recent - having a call-for-unsafe-conditions number posted has been going on for a LONG time.
This isn't recent - having a call-for-unsafe-conditions number posted has been going on for a LONG time.
Well, I know for a fact that in LIC where I used to go to school, it wasn't required, and wasn't done, until my senior year of high school. Everyone was making a big deal about it, there's no way I could forget about it... of course, there's always the possibility that it WAS required, and that it wasn't as heavily enforced.
Someone mentioned in a different forum that the highly skilled crane operators are being paid bigger bucks in Dubai. Makes you wonder. We never used to hear of so many of these cluster accidents.
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