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    :: Thursday, October 26, 2006 ::

    Hardhat horrors - BY ADAM LISBERG and ALISON GENDAR, New York Daily News
    Two construction workers plunged to their deaths yesterday in separate scaffolding accidents - one on the Queensboro Bridge, the other at an upper East Side high-rise.

    The U.S. Labor Department was investigating both fatal falls in which the workers were not wearing their safety harnesses.
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