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Old Posted Jan 21, 2015, 1:55 AM
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I don't know, the fatality statistic is pretty meaningless unless there is context around what percentage of construction jobs are union and what type of jobs these are. For example, I think it is safe to assume that the percentage of these fatalities related to road-work is pretty high. If 75% of the road-work jobs nationally are non-union and they account for 75% of the national fatalities on road-work jobs then there is no difference between union and non-union. Not really debating the safety of union vs non-union ... just railing against the use of meaningless or misleading statistics to support an argument.
I don't think it's meaningless at all. We have statistics for a reason. Of course, you can debate them til the end of time, but it doesn't matter.



Anyway, the latest permit filing...


http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQu...passjobnumber=140301279&passdocnumber=01

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PROPOSED EQUIPMENT USE OF SPIDER HOIST AS PER PLANS.
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