^ Is there a reason you would overlook the NWM Outpatient Pavillion and the new RIC? (eg their garage bases were concrete frame? they were healthcare programs?) Because otherwise, they were both certainly big steel jobs.
I would be curious though if we were seeing some sort of broader, real underlying uptick in construction accidents across downtown. I'm sure there's probably very credible data available somewhere that can be somehow adjusted for the huge swings in actual amount of construction taking place (worker days, whatever). Otherwise, you could never try to just decipher on your own from media in my opinion, as there has just been such an increase, and a real-time increase on online reporting, and then you have these micro-location sites like dnainfo, everyblock and what not. So, we've had apparently at least 2 significant incidences here at RiverPoint, we had that massive boner at 150 of sinking a large barge, there was (this was not well reported on, but look it up - project never mentioned but the address only points directly to New City) unfortunately a fatal accident at the New City project last year - a construction worker from Lockport died when a concrete wall collapsed on him, and last week the very unfortunate death of a worker at State and Elm. I do wonder if perhaps there is something to this coming out of a deep industry recession in which many thousands of workers were layed off for long periods of time, but now farily rapidly and in significant fashion are being put back to work on projects that are moving ahead at "full speed".......
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