“This tragic news shook the entire Bechtel community to its core,” Bechtel President and Chief Operating Officer Craig Albert and Energy Division President Paul Marsden said in a joint statement.

The current Scaffold Law imposes strict liability on contractors, developers, and owners regarding fall from heights injuries ...

The law does not make workplaces safer; it just makes building in New York more expensive. Since state leaders won’t change the law, Congress should preempt it.

New York has some of the strongest labor laws in the nation, laws that set the benchmark for upholding workers’ rights. Among them is the Scaffold Law, which has been a beacon of construction site ...