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:: Monday, June 21, 2004 ::
Builders protest law on liability By Jay Gallagher, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
But if New York has more worker-injury lawsuits than other states, it is also safer than most states for construction work, according to federal Bureau of Labor Statistics figures used in a study done by the state Trial Lawyers Association. The scaffold law, the lawyers say, is the reason.
The state had fewer than five nonfatal injuries per 100 workers in 2001, lower than all states except Louisiana, which had fewer than 4.5, according to the study.
A year earlier, 30 of the 1,183 construction deaths in the country were in New York. That was 2.5 percent of the total, while the state accounts for almost 7 percent of the nation’s population.
”New York state’s unique Scaffold Law has been a significant factor in achieving this success,” the trial lawyers state in their report.
But builders say that other factors, such as responsible contractors, might be behind the better safety record.------------------------------------------- posted 6:02 AM :: reference link ::
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