As construction booms, City Council bills seek to increase worker safety
A parade of coffins outside City Hall
As construction workers rallied with coffins outside City Hall on Thursday, a City Council committee considered laws that would increase safety at construction sites.
Bills under consideration would create a task force to assess safety risks at construction sites and increase penalties for construction companies that worked without permits and violated stop work orders.
At the hearing, Councilmember Jumaane Williams (Canarsie, East Flatbush, Midwood), chair of the Committee on Housing and Buildings, read a list of the names of workers who have died at construction sites over the last two years.