The afternoon of November 6, 2023, Francisco Lumbreras, 52, worked for a place preparation contractor in the Bronx by applying fat with a fat gun to a mount on the back of a ready truck. Took a step or two back, according to federal security records, when his clothes were Take by the rotating shaft that leads the vibration air valves.
He tried to free him from the shaft turning, and a co -worker heard him shout and turned off power. But then, Lumbreras had taken away, cutting and crushing the upper body, killing it.
The New York City has characterized in 2023 a year of success of construction security, at least when it comes to building construction projects, where the city said that there were only seven fatalities, from 11 in 2022, according to the Department of Buildings. In 2023 marked the first year for Carlos’s law, a measure throughout the state that increases sanctions due to criminal corporate liability in cases that have deaths from workers or serious injuries.
The problem is that the amount of safety progress you can count in New York and New York State depends a lot on how the count is made and whoever does.
These differences were never clear than in recent weeks.
A new report from the New York State Committee for Nycosh Safety and Health and Health), a surveillance and defense group, said that the fatalities of construction in New York City continued to increase, saying that 30 construction workers died in New York City in 2023, compared to 24 of 2022 and 20 by 2021.
The state of New York had also seen “ a sharp increase of 48%” in the fatalities of construction in those years, said that the Nycosh report, which went from 50 fatalities by 2022 to 74 in 2023. The report indicated the large number of Latinx workers in accidents, and said that there were more accidents in the open shop businessmen. Safety application needed more resources, Nycosh recommended.
Safety data differences
Samantha Fisher, the lead author of the Nycosh report, said in an email that the difference between the numbers between Nycosh and the city’s buildings department is that the department has a narrower area and that its “main focus is public safety, not the monitoring of all the fatal workers”. Nycosh, he says, issues a wider information network to investigate fatal accidents in all types of construction, not only related to the building. He said that the Data Data Data Department may not coincide with that of the federal security databases.
This month, for the first time, the contractors of the New York State Open Store published a strong complaint from the Nycosh report, whose funding sources include unions, saying that their data were misleading and that their conclusions and findings were motivated by an anti-open store bias.
“Instead of presenting an honest evaluation, NYCOSH inflates the number of mortality, including incidents not related to building building, such as window washing to deceive the public and policymakers,” the state of the state of the associated builders and contractors claims in a statement.
Chapter President Brian Sampson said that every year in his report “Nycosh has incidents not related to construction to exaggerate the number of fatalities”. The ABC chapter cites the security statistics improved by New York City Department.
In 2023 marks, Sampson says, “a new year under fatal victims related to construction that directly contradicts Nycosh’s claim of 30 deaths. The reality is that construction in New York city is becoming more secure.”
