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:: Friday, March 19, 2004 ::

Construction worker falls to death By Lindsay Faber, nynewsday
According to building officials, Brown was climbing down a ladder leaning precariously against a residential building he was working on at 1180 Jackson Ave. A 12-foot stationary scaffold was positioned six feet away from the building, and the ladder was leaning against the scaffold pointed toward the roof, Buildings Department spokeswoman Ilyse Fink said.

'The weight of the worker and the angle of the ladder pried the scaffold away from the building and the worker fell three stories,' Fink said.

'The scaffold was not particularly well-grounded in that the only support was the ground and the ground wasn't level,' Fink said. 'They really didn't do what they could have done to support it.'

Builders lobby for limits on liability By ANNE MILLER, timesunion
The proposed amendment to the so-called Scaffold Law would make it more difficult for workers to win multimillion-dollar lawsuits against builders or contractors for injuries suffered on the job.

But attorneys who represent injured workers oppose any changes in a law they see as vital to protecting laborers in an inherently dangerous profession.

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