Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness

Construction Expert Witness with 40 years of proven success in the NYC construction industry.

[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

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[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

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@markgadala OMG!
Hysterical, but scary because it looks soo real.

[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

A worker fell into a deep excavation pit at Hudson Yards, NYC, and died despite rapid response. A stark reminder: deep excavations remain one of our highest risks.

https://t.co/5sa3vrFHeo

What’s the one safety control you prioritize to keep deep excavations incident-free on your sites?

[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

NYC Comptroller just updated the Employer Violations Dashboard, handy for spotting contractors with safety/wage issues. Great due-diligence tool before you award a job.

https://t.co/Wri90XLCaD

Do you screen subs against public databases first?

#RiskManagement #Compliance #ConstructionSafety #NYCLaw

[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

NY introduces a bill requiring SST-card holders to complete additional training on suicide risk, mental-health awareness & substance misuse. A shift toward broader site-safety. https://t.co/rpOiwdtWwG

What’s one practical change you’d add to make this training meaningful on site, not just another checkbox?

[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

A flagger on a NYC highway project was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver despite being in a designated safety zone.

If you were upgrading your traffic-control plan today, what’s the one thing you’d prioritize to protect ground crews?

#WorkZoneSafety #ConstructionSafety #NYCConstruction

[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

A worker fell into a deep excavation pit at Hudson Yards, NYC, and died despite rapid response. A stark reminder: deep excavations remain one of our highest risks.

https://t.co/5sa3vrFHeo

What’s the one safety control you prioritize to keep deep excavations incident-free on your sites?

#ConstructionSafety #NYCConstruction

[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

At JFK Airport in Queens, three construction workers were injured after a beam collapsed and pinned them. Serious but non-fatal, yet the gap in overhead/shoring risk shows up again.

https://t.co/VLSMJvgEwn

How are you managing overhead hazards like beams & temporary supports during high-risk builds?

#SiteSafety #NYCConstruction #ConstructionRisk #WorkerProtection

[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

A worker fell into a deep excavation pit at Hudson Yards, NYC, and died despite rapid response. A stark reminder: deep excavations remain one of our highest risks.

https://t.co/5sa3vrF9oQ

What’s the one safety control you prioritize to keep deep excavations incident-free on your sites?

#ConstructionSafety #NYCConstruction

[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

New Council bill would supply naloxone kits to every major construction site. Safety now means overdose readiness, too, training, drills, documentation.

https://t.co/7GWe25ycKA

How would you fold this into your site safety plan, without slowing the field?

#WorkerProtection #SafetyPrograms #NYCConstruction #PublicHealth

[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

Heads up: retaining walls ≥10 ft facing a public way need a QRWI inspection every 5 years—Manhattan reports are due Dec 31, 2025. Miss it and you’re looking at violations (and risk).
https://t.co/IVUH8tcANd

Should NYC expand QRWI-style checks to other exterior elements?

#NYCConstruction #ConstructionSafety #DOB #BuildingSafety

[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

\NY introduces a bill requiring SST-card holders to complete additional training on suicide risk, mental-health awareness & substance misuse. A shift toward broader site-safety. https://t.co/rpOiwdtoH8

What’s one practical change you’d add to make this training meaningful on site ,not just another checkbox?

#ConstructionSafety #WorkerWellbeing #NYCConstruction

[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

Who you hire matters..

NYC Comptroller just updated the Employer Violations Dashboard, handy for spotting contractors with safety/wage issues. Great due-diligence tool before you award a job.

https://t.co/Wri90XLCaD

Do you screen subs against public databases first?

#RiskManagement #Compliance #ConstructionSafety #NYCLaw

[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

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[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

A rooftop parapet wall collapsed in Cypress Hills this month, killing a worker on site. DOB inspectors cited severe structural defects and issued a full stop-work order. It’s a tragic reminder of how quickly neglected maintenance can turn fatal.

What additional inspections or certifications should owners be required to complete before rooftop work begins?

#NYCConstruction #ConstructionSafety #WorkerProtection #DOB

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[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Here's an interesting side bar. After the Japanese decimated our fleet in Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941, they could have sent their troop ships and carriers directly to California to finish what they started. The prediction from our Chief of Staff was we would not be able to stop a massive invasion until they reached the Mississippi River. Remember, we had a 2 million man army and war ships in other localities, so why did they not invade?

After the war, the remaining Japanese generals and admirals were asked that question. Their answer....they know that almost every home had guns and the Americans knew how to use them.

1. The world's largest army ... America 's hunters! I had never thought about this....

2. A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion:

3. There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin .

4. Allow me to restate that number.

5. Over the last several months, Wisconsin ’s hunters became the eighth largest army in the world.

6. More men under arms than in Iran .

7. More than in France and Germany combined.

8. These men deployed to the woods of a single American state to hunt with firearms, and no one was killed.

9. That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of Pennsylvania and Michigan 's 700,000 hunters,

10. All of whom have now returned home.

11. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally establishes the fact that

12. The hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world. The number of Hunters in the state of Texas would be the largest standing army in the world by it's self.

13. The point?

14. America
15. Hunting -- it's not just a way to fill the freezer. It's a matter of national security.

16. That's why all enemies, foreign and domestic, want to see us disarmed.

17. Food for thought when next we consider gun control.

[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

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[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

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[Construction Safety Professional & Expert Witness @nySafetyExpert]

Officials have declared Harlem’s Legionnaires’ outbreak over and announced new preventive measures: more frequent cooling tower inspections, stronger regulations, and improved emergency protocols.

Will tougher inspections and regulations be enough to prevent another outbreak, or is a deeper cultural shift in compliance needed?

https://t.co/8A9WxKpQ8k