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.