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:: Monday, June 16, 2008 ::
Ask a Construction Worker: A Freakonomics Quorum - By Annika Mengisen, New York Times Blog
Safety is an all-too-familiar issue in the construction industry — workers in Las Vegas are striking over it; in April, New York’s building commissioner resigned in light of more than 26 construction worker deaths in the city this year.
As for the two recent crane collapses in New York, Patrick Crean, a construction worker at the Freedom Tower site, suspects old equipment that’s not inspected enough.
Could it happen at the Freedom Tower site? Not a chance, he says. “We’re drowning in bureaucracy here.”
All workers at the Freedom Tower site are unionized and the Port Authority is involved, he explains. At less notable sites in Manhattan? Who knows.------------------------------------------- posted 6:42 AM :: reference link ::
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