These New Yorkers are working themselves to death, literally.
Sure, earning an honest living is laudable, but it can also be lethal depending on the occupational hazards that come with the job.
And, unfortunately, in and around NYC, the hard workers who wear hard hats have the highest rates of work-related fatalities, per grisly new data.
“The construction and extraction occupational group had 55 fatal workplace injuries,” revealed a report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, released last week, that tracked employee deaths throughout New York state in 2024. “Falls, slips and trips resulted in 24 of the 55 construction and extraction fatalities.”…