What Clients Say

"The team couldn't have served me better because they were perfect in every way."
"There is no way any other law firm would treat a client, like they treated me. I am forever grateful to them and would highly recommend them. You won't regret it."
" I cannot say enough about Scott and the excellent job he did. It was a pleasure doing business with Scott and your firm."
"I appreciated that I was never made to feel like a bother to anyone. They are very professional."
"Great experience!, knowing that I was being guided and assured by a highly loyal, dedicated professional firm such as Markhoff & Mittman."

view all

Library

New York State Workers’ Compensation

Sanitation Workers Doing Dangerous Jobs

view all

FAQs

New York State Workers’ Compensation

Are workers compensation hearings in New York open to the public?

view all

Best Source of Up-to-Date news on workers' compensation and disability in New York

NY Worker Killed at Construction Site after Fatal Locomotive Accident

Posted on May 17, 2011

A worker was killed while on the job in New York after an accident at the site of a new water treatment plant in Webster. The incident occurred shortly before 10:30 a.m. on April 11, 2011. The man's name has not been released.

The Monroe County Water Authority, based in Rochester, began the project in order to reach rural customers and to relieve some of the stress on both the treatment plant and electrical grids in Greece. It is expected to be completed by 2013. In order to complete the facility, workers have been creating a 6,000-foot tunnel to Lake Ontario.

Workers on the site use a very large boring apparatus to break through rock at a rate of about 40 feet per day. The rock is then taken to the surface by rail cars behind the borer.

The crew was working 163 feet below ground at the time of the accident. Responders to the scene said that the victim was working on top of a small locomotive and apparently fell. He was run over by the locomotive and killed.

The worksite is expected to be closed while OSHA conducts an investigation.

The New York disability lawyers of Markhoff & Mittman, PC offer our sincere condolences to the family and friends of the victim of this tragic worksite accident.