Lawmakers Approve Bill Giving State Another Year to Track Construction Fatalities

A better way of tracking construction-site fatalities may be badly needed, but it could be at least another year before such a system is set up by the New York State Department of Labor. The state Assembly this week approved Senate Bill 1302, a week after the Senate passed it. Sponsored by Sen. Jessica Ramos, D-East Elmhurst, the bill would give the department another year to establish a registry of construction deaths, something that Ramos and labor groups have said is needed because of wide disparities in reporting and tracking fatalities. The registry was required by Ramos' 2020 bill,...