On August 24, 2006, Eric Berrios was a union carpenter working on an 80-story condominium construction project at 735 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan. He was on the second floor deck, on top of a scaffold, cutting wood and laying out plywood when he fell 20 feet below onto a concrete slab.
Berrios was
On October 18, 2000, Olga Ortiz slipped on a concrete step on the top of the staircase leading to the Number 6 train at the 28th Street subway station at Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.
Ms. Ortiz, a nurse’s aide then 59 years old, fell down the entire staircase and landed at the bottom. A
On January 27, 2003, at about 9:45 a.m., Lucille Turuseta was walking into the rear entrance of an office building at 175 Main Street in White Plains where she worked as the office manager for a court reporting firm. As she opened the door, Ms. Turuseta’s right foot became caught in broken cement causing her