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Construction Safety Dispatch Articles
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The estate of Javier Salinas, the Danbury construction worker who plummeted more than 50 feet to his death at the Chelsea Piers construction site in Stamford, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on Tuesday against his employers.
The lawsuit is seeking more than $15,000 in damages for negligence and the infliction of emotional distress from: Ashford Properties Construction Inc., and its parent company, the Ashford Company Inc.; Merritt Contractors Inc.; Stamford Exit 9 LLC; Chelsea Piers Connecticut LLC; American Building Group Inc., and American Building Group LLC.
Filed in state Superior Court in Bridgeport on behalf of Salinas' widow, Rosa Calva, the suit contends that the contractors are responsible for Salinas' death because they allowed him to scale a roof of the Chelsea Piers sports complex without a safety harness.
Salinas fell to his death on Oct. 25 after a gust of wind blew him off the edge.
He was working for American Buildings, a Trumbull contractor working for AP Construction. Salinas was installing sheeting on the roof.
The site is at the former Clairol campus at 1 Blachley Road. In March 2010, a partnership between a Norwalk real estate company and the Connecticut Film Center bought the 32.68-acre campus from Clairol for about $16.75 million.
Chelsea Piers leased a portion of the site last year and announced plans to build a complex similar to the sports facilities along the Hudson River in Manhattan.
Only two hours before Salinas' death, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and executives from NBC Sports and the National Hockey League announced a $20 million deal to bring at least 450 jobs to the site.
On Dec. 1, about 50 workers protested against AP Construction on the corner of Blachley Road and East Main Street, claiming the construction company should be held accountable for hiring subcontractors who don't cover worker's compensation benefits and sacrifice safety in exchange for cost savings.
A stop-work order was issued by the state Department of Labor against the Trumbull subcontractor, American Building Group and two other construction companies, and federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials are investigating the death.
Source: NewsTimes.com
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