Legal news for New York Construction Accident lawyers—Occupational Safety and Health Administration probes incident that injured two construction workers in school library.
Pelham, NY (NewYorkInjuryNews.com) – Two construction workers were injured when a school roof collapsed on Saturday, October 31, 2009, and displaced Colonial School students for the next two weeks, announced Lower Hudson journal news.
Police reported that the two workers were performing demolition work when the roof over the school’s library gave way. Emergency medical services (EMS) reported to the scene at Colonial library and transported the two men to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx to be treated by doctors and nurses.
The construction workers were employed by Wager Contracting Co. of New Rochelle. The company refused to answer questions about the two injured workers. On Tuesday, four schools in the district began receiving the temporarily displaced students from Colonial until the school was safe to reopen.
The school District’s Superintendent Dennis Lauro told news sources that a company employee of Wager Contracting sustained a broken ankle in the collapse, and was too be released from the hospital by Monday, or Tuesday. The other worker sustained serious and excruciatingly painful injuries and doctors had put him into a medically induced coma.
The construction workers were in the process of demolishing an existing addition to the main school facility in order to build a two-story addition with classrooms and a upstairs library.
The School District administration has said that the school will open its doors again after it receives the approval from the New York State Education Department and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) www.osha.gov. OSHA performed an investigation to determine whether safety standards were met at the school work site.
Bridget Hom
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