NYC Report Highlights Safest Building Construction Sites in Decade

• New York City Mayor Eric Adams and City Department of Buildings (DOB) Commissioner Jimmy Oddo today have released the DOB’s annual New York City Construction Safety Report.
• Worker injuries dropped by 30% in 2024 compared to 2023, while construction-related incidents fell by 24%.
• DOB performed over 416,000 Inspections in 2024, which was the highest number on record.
• “With these positive trends towards safer construction sites, worker injuries reached a nine-year low and construction-related incidents reached a 10-year low; additionally, worker fatalities remained at a 10-year low, according to a statement.
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Man Who Beat BP Now Suing OSHA Over Gulf Spill

• The only cleanup worker to successfully sue BP over a chronic medical condition stemming from the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster is suing federal OSHA for allegedly failing to enforce regulations to protect him and thousands of others from exposure to toxic chemicals.
• While at least 4,000 other cleanup workers’ lawsuits were dismissed in courtrooms across the Gulf Coast, cleanup worker John Maas succeeded by moving to rural Tennessee and getting his case sent to a Tennessee federal court.
• In a filing amended last month, Maas accuses OSHA and the EPA of failing to enforce environmental and workplace regulations in the summer of 2010 during the BP spill cleanup operations.
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