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MR. ZUCKER: Construction accidents involve injuries to construction workers at construction sites and New York State’s labor law, recognizing the hazardous nature of construction work has provided additional measures which provide the injured worker with remedies not available to individuals in other occupations or who are injured in other circumstances. Under New York State’s labor law if a worker is injured at a construction site as a result of a elevation risk, which would be for instance a scaffold or a ladder collapses or the worker falls off a scaffold or ladder, or if something should fall from a height on top, above the worker, and strike the worker, New York’s labor law provides that the owner and general contractor are strictly liable to the worker for any injuries, and loss of earnings, and damages that he sustains.