
Construction Accidents • Workplace Injury
Court Says an Extension Cord is not Proper Hoisting Equipment
By Dominique A. Penson
An appeals court told the City of New York that it has to give laborers doing brick work at a public school suitable materials, such as a mechanical hoist, to raise and lower buckets of cement from one level of the work site to another. The plaintiff, who worked for the contractor renovating the school […]