City Room: Worker Dies in Fall From Bridge
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Staten Island-bound traffic on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge was closed after a man fell from the Brooklyn approach to the bridge.
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A fresh slab of wet concrete collapsed on the 24th floor of a high-rise construction site Friday, injuring 16 workers, including two who had to be extricated from the concrete by a rescue team, officials said.
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A column under construction collapsed on a new bridge Thursday, sending nine workers plunging into the Bay of St. Louis. One worker died and another was missing.
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Steel plates connecting beams in the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis were too thin by half and fractured, "the critical factor" in the collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.
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Two workers apparently fell from a scaffold while working several stories up on a high-rise under construction in Brooklyn, and one died.
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A supervisor at BP Plc's Texas City, Texas, refinery died on Monday of head injuries suffered when a heavy metal lid blew off a unit during a restart, his family's lawyer and BP said on Tuesday.
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Prosecutors have concluded that a reporter who died after falling out of a stairwell window of his apartment building committed suicide, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
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A wall collapsed at an airport construction site Monday, killing more than eight workers and injuring many more, a contractor said.
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Several workers are believed to have been killed and others injured after a contruction site collapsed at Dubai airport. The workers were trapped under rubble at the site of a $4.
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By Jennifer Mooney Piedra, The Miami Herald  Sep. 13--A construction worker who fell 20 feet into a tank at a water treatment plant in Pompano Beach is being treated at the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, the Broward Sheriff's Office said.
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At least five people were injured on Saturday after an expressway overpass collapsed in a Montreal suburb, and others could be trapped underneath a tangle of concrete debris, emergency officials said.
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MOSCOW -- A military correspondent for Russia's top business daily who had at times reported critically on government projects died Friday after falling from a fifth-story window.
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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - A 79-year-old woman suffered only bruises after a drawbridge opened beneath her as she walked across it, leaving her dangling from the structure.  Helen Koton said she did not hear any warning signals before the bridge began to open with her nearly halfway across.
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Three people, including a baby, die when a crane collapsed in the city of St Petersburg.
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A bridge under construction in southern Vietnam collapsed Wednesday, killing at least 18 workers and leaving dozens more missing or injured, officials said.
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DUBAI: Five workers were killed and 12 injured yesterday when part of a wall collapsed at a construction site for a new state-of-the-art terminal at Dubai international airport.
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Wild animals do for SS Bajwa Delhi's deputy mayor SS Bajwa died yesterday as a result of "serious head injuries" after falling from his first-floor terrace while attempting to fight off a pack of wild monkeys, the BBC reports.â¦