Murphy Tease, in class assignment

Stairwell Road- Murphy Tease, a 51 year old riveter, was injured at 11 am this morning after falling forty feet into concrete at a furniture warehouse construction site.

Tease was passed out upon the arrival of the ambulance and was rushed to st. luke's hospital. He suffered a broken arm, broken ribs, fractured his leg, and had a concussion. Tease is now in satisfactory condition.

Murphy was said to have lost his balance due to a gust of wind. According to the other workers last nights rain fall had made the beams slippery and it was very windy as well.

The Bomasso Engineering Co., the company Tease was working for, was given a violation last week from the city building department stating the need to install safety lines that would prevent situations like these from occurring. The company however ignored the violation and no lines were installed.

In-Class Exercise.

At 11am this morning, the strong winds caused Murphy Tease, a 51-year-old riveter, an accident at a construction site where the Bomasso Engineering Co. was installing a post-and-beam framing for a furniture warehouse.
While standing on a beam that was around 15 inches wide, strong winds made Tease to lose his balance. Suddenly Tease waved his arms wildly for a few seconds and then fell backwards to the concrete base of the construction site. Unimaginably, Tease fell off 40 feet above ground causing a broken right arm, three broken ribs and a fractured left leg.
The city's building department had ordered to install safety lines for workers in order to avoid workplace accidents. However, many workers at the site said that these had not been installed. They also said the beams were slippery from last night's rainstorm.
Although Tease was unconscious when the ambulance arrived and took him to St. Luke's Hospital the nurse that was assisting him said he was in satisfactory condition.

In-Class Exercise

This morning at 11 am construction worker Murphy Tease (Age 51) fell backwards forty feet onto concrete due to unsafe working conditions at the construction site on Stairwell Road, breaking several bones.

Tease was taken to St. Luke's Hospital and according to the emergency room nurse he had a broken right arm, three broken ribs and a fractured left leg in addition to suffering a concussion. According to construction workers at the site it was very windy and the beams were slippery from the previous night's rainstorm. Although the city's building department had ordered the site to install safety lines for workers the week before none had been installed.

Murphy Tease was a riveter and had been working on the fifteen inch wide beams about forty feet above ground and was knocked backwards by a gust of wind onto the concrete below. Had safety lines been installed as instructed Tease's entire accident could have been easily prevented. As of now Tease is in satisfactory condition.

In-Class Exercise

Murphy Tease, a construction worker, was severely injured late this morning at a Bomasso Engineering Co. construction site due to a lack of security precautions and a big gust of wind.

After falling off of a 15 inch wide beam and plummeting 40 feet onto a concrete base, Murphy Tease, a riveter for Bomasso Engineering Co., is recovering. Tease sustained multiple injuries, including a concussion, broken right arm, three broken ribs, and a fractured left leg. According to the County Sheriff Oscar Beebe, who was reporting on the accident, Tease is in satisfactory condition.

The contraction site off of Stairwell Road was putting up the steel post-and-beam framing for a furniture warehouse. No safety lines were installed at the site, despite the city's buildings department order after a violation that occurred the previous week.

Tease recovering at St. Luke's Hospital; no further information has been released about how the company is handling the accident.

500 word News Story 9/7/2011

NEW ROCHELLE, Ny - Early this past Sunday morning my father and stepmother, Anthony Heller and Elizabeth Cornacchio, were distressed upon waking, to find water leaking into the basement of their house in lower Westchester, a blow from Hurricane Irene, the 700-mile-wide storm that wreaked havoc on much of the east coast last weekend.

After experiencing floods in the same house twice before –flooding in 2007, and again in 2009 caused significant damage to the basement portion of the house, which subsequently required renovations each time – my parents had hoped to have better success this time around. In the days before Hurricane Irene hit, my parents, like many home-owner residents of Westchester County, busied themselves with making preparations for the storm. They stocked up on food staples like bread and milk, scoured the local stores for batteries, and purchased gasoline for their back-up generator, praying that obtaining such provisions would be the biggest of their worries. But unfortunately, although the addition of French drains and a new sump pump roughly six months prior to Hurricane Irene, lessened the impact of the storm, it was not enough to prevent flooding entirely.

“We realized we had a problem when I got up about 6:30 am and found water leaking out of the furnace room, and the sump was filled with water,” said Anthony Heller, a long-time resident of New Rochelle. “So my wife made a brilliant suggestion – ‘Let’s get the shop vac’ which we did.”

“We then spent 7 or 8 hours vacuuming about 800 gallons of water,“ said Elizabeth Cornacchio. “We would let the shop vac fill about two-thirds of the way, and then put all the water into the sump.”

The alertness, early rising habits, and quick action of residents proved invaluable in the face of Hurricane Irene and helped stave off flooding for the entire day. But Heller considered their biggest accomplishment beyond the scope of vacuuming water. “We rescued the house from catastrophe without our 22 year old daughter.”

In-Class Assignment: 9/7/2011

A construction worker for the Bomasso Engineering Co. slipped and fell from a beam this morning at a construction site a mile north of town, a week after the company was cited for safety violations.

51 year old Murphy Tease was driven to St. Luke’s Hospital from the construction site at Stairwell Road at around 11 a.m. this morning, and treated for a concussion, broken right arm, three broken ribs, and a fractured leg, after losing balance and falling 40 feet onto concrete. Tease fell while helping to install the steel post-and-beam framing for a furniture warehouse that is currently being built.

Although the the Bomasso Engineering Co. was ordered by the city’s department of buildings to put up safety lines last week, no such lines were yet in place at the time of Tease’s fall.

High winds and slippery beams from last night’s rainstorm made conditions even more dangerous for workers. Who had nothing to hold onto if they lost their balance.

Although Tease was unconscious at the time he was taken to St. Luke’s, and emergency room nurse said that he was currently in satisfactory condition.

In-Class Assignment: Sept. 7, 2011

At eleven o’ clock this morning, Murphy Tease, a riveter for Bomasso Engineering Co., fell 40 feet from a suspended beam onto a concrete surface at the Stairwell Road construction site, due to poor weather conditions and the company’s neglect to install safety wires after being ordered to by the City Building Dept. a week ago.

Tease was working on the 15-inch wide beam when a gust of wind knocked him off-balance and, without a safety line to hold, he fell backwards onto the concrete base of the construction site. When the ambulance arrived, Tease was unconscious and immediately transported to St. Luke’s hospital.

The Bomasso Engineering Co. neglected to install safety lines for workers to hold onto although a violation had been issued a week prior to the accident. In addition to the absence of wires, construction workers at the site reported very windy conditions and slippery beams after last night’s rainstorm, creating the horribly perfect combination for an unfortunate accident.

According to a nurse from St. Luke’s emergency room, Tease suffered a broken right arm, three broken ribs, a fractured left leg, and a concussion from his major fall. Fortunately, Tease is said to now be in satisfactory condition at St. Luke’s.

Tease is 51 years old and lives at 14 Lincoln Ave. He was involved with the construction of the new furniture warehouse being completed by Bomasso Engineering Co.

Practice Test 2003 - Sorcha

51 year old Murphy Tease suffered serious injuries after falling 40ft while working on a construction site on the Stairwell Road at 11am this morning.

Tease broke his right arm, three ribs, his left leg and sustained a concussion from the incident.

The Bomasso Engineering Co. site, on which Tease had been working, had been ordered by the city’s building department to install safety beams for workers, and were last week issued with a violation for the absence of safety beams. At the time of Tease’s accident, no such safety beams had been fitted.

Tease, who was unconscious when abulances from St. Lukes’ Hospital arrived on the scene, was knocked off balance by a gust of wind. Slippery poles from last night's rainstorm also increased the safety-hazard of the site.

Nurses at the hospital said that Tease was now in a satisfactory condition.

Practice Test 2003

Olivia Tarplin

STAIRWELL ROAD- Bomasso Engineering Co.'s new furniture warehouse, currently under construction, was the sight of an accident today at about 11 a.m., caused by the absence of mandatory safety measures to counteract dangerous effects of recent weather conditions.

Fifty-one year old Murphy Tease, a riveter for the construction company, was working 40 feet above the concrete when he fell to the ground, causing him to lose consciousness, and suffer a broken arm, three broken ribs, a fractured leg and a concussion. The main factors causing him to fall were the slippery beam on which he was standing and the strong winds which caused him to lose his balance.

In anticipations of accidents of this nature, the city's building department had instructed the construction company to install safety lines, which builders could hold onto if they feared falling. Although a week had passed since this order, the safety lines were still absent when Tease was working, and he had nothing to grab onto when he slipped on the wet beam.

Tease is in satisfactory condition at St. Luke's hospital, and it is unknown if he has any plans to sue the construction company or Bomasso Engineering Co.

Inverted Pyramid Article

9/3/2011, Bushwick, NY- Tenant threatens legal action against landlord this Thursday for extensive mold damage and repeated flooding. After massive flooding in the wake of Hurricane Irene, Brooklyn resident Yale Davison is now demanding his landlord, Harry Klein, compensation for damages regarding mold growth and insulation damage in the basement of his apartment, going so far as to threaten legal recourse in response to Mr. Klein’s lack of action. Mr. Davison is also claiming that the flooding began prior to the hurricane, as far back as September of last year. The flooding and mold not only appear to be a structural threat but a serious health hazard as well. “This has been a reoccurring issue since we moved in last summer,” states Mr. Davison, “There’s been mold growing in that room since July and it’s made it completely uninhabitable”. Mr. Klein’s response claimed he had never been made aware of the situation before. In an email reply to Mr. Davison, Mr. Klein said, “Let’s take some facts into perspective, as far as I know the mold has only begun after the hurricane last weekend. Nobody complained about a mold issue prior to that date and I myself have been in that room a couple times and never noticed a thing.”

This however, according to Mr. Davison’s lawyer, is untrue. Providing legal advice for Mr. Davison is Garry Haber, a realty lawyer, who claims that Mr. Klein’s claims are false and that his client possesses sufficient evidence against Mr. Klein’s account. With photographs and dated correspondences in tow Mr. Haber contacted Mr. Klein in order to engage in a dialogue regarding the flooding. This meeting however was cut short with both parties unable to reach a compromise. “Did he not see the pictures? Did he not read the emails? I can’t believe he’s actually denying this,” stated Mr. Haber moments after the meeting. “He’s (Mr. Davison) only demanding compensation for the damaged property and threat the mold poses to his personal health. Mr. Klein needs to realize this and make things right”.

Nevertheless the issue continues to persist. With mold spreading throughout the room, the most apparent indication of its presence is the smell. “I can’t breathe after I step in that room, I went in there a couple times earlier to take photos of the damages and when I came out I felt sick and I just recovered from a bronchial infection that was caused by mold in my old apartment” states Mr. Davison, “It’s just something I want resolved and compensated for”.

Repairs are set to begin this weekend and both the tenant and landlord seem eager to put the dispute behind them. “I’ve fixed everything he’s asked me to fix, of course the mold will be dealt with but what he’s asking for in compensation is outrageous, he’s trying to swindle me” said Mr. Klein in response to allegations of falsehood. Mr. Davison continues to receive counsel from Mr. Haber and concluded his meeting by saying, “I’m not going to correspond by email anymore, and it’s counterproductive and pretty comical that he’s denying everything even though I have proof”. The issue continues to be a point of contention and remains unresolved.