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Justin Plank, a 21-year-old man, was injured on May 12 at a gas station in Norwalk, CT after a steel beam fell off a payloader and struck him in the leg. According to this article, Plank was guiding a 16-foot steel pillar into place at when a chain wrapped around the claw-bucket holding the beam slipped. The beam crashed to the ground and cut a gash into his lower left leg. Plank, who works for East Hartford-based [...]

A construction worker was seriously injured by a two-floor fall as he worked on a home in Mahwah, NJ. According to this article on northjersey.com, the man was trying to help brace drywall being lifted into the second floor of a new-construction home when the drywall started to fall backward, throwing the man onto a plywood floor on the first level. The 24-year-old worker from Elmwood Park landed on his back and wa [...]

On March 2, a construction worker doing welding work in Cateret, NJ was injured when an explosion caused the doors of his pickup truck to fly off and smash into him. According to this article on nj.com, the man was welding at a construction site at a Verizon Wireless data center when the explosion erupted. He was the only one injured in the blast. Any worker who has sustained an injury arising out of and in the c [...]