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:: Sunday, May 23, 2004 ::

Laborer Dies and 2 Are Hurt as Illegal Balcony Roof Falls By MICHAEL BRICK and DAVID W. CHEN, New York Times
A laborer was killed and two others were seriously injured yesterday when a balcony roof that was being illegally built at a new luxury condominium building in Brooklyn gave way, sending the workers tumbling three stories in a deluge of bricks and flowing concrete, the authorities said.

The primary contractor on the job, Big Apple Development and Construction of Bayside, Queens, has open violations and large unpaid fines from federal workplace safety regulators, including a $7,000 fine for an unsafe work site in Staten Island in 2002.

Laborer's Death Prompts Homicide Investigation By MICHAEL BRICK and JESS WISLOSKI, New York Times
Across the country, prosecutors in California have been more aggressive than others in pursuing convictions in connection with workplace deaths, but New York prosecutors have had some successes.

In January, Philip V. Minucci, a contractor, was sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter charges in the deaths of five construction workers who were killed when a scaffold collapsed at a building in Gramercy Park in October 2001. Mr. Minucci admitted that he had designed the scaffold without regard for its safety.

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