You're on the fourteenth floor of a prewar Manhattan office tower being gutted for a tech tenant. The plans say it's a straightforward interior demo — pull the walls, expose the slab, set new MEP. You step into what's drawn on the prints as a service alcove, and the floor underneath you fails. A concealed slab pocket — never disclosed by the owner, never noted in any survey — collapses with you on top of it. Steel decking pins your pelvis and femur against rebar. By the time

You're on a Queens construction site — maybe a row of townhouses going up in Maspeth, or a commercial build-out in Long Island City. You climb an extension ladder leaning against a column. Somebody bumps the base, the feet skid out on a dusty concrete slab, and you go down hard. By the time the ambulance reaches Elmhurst Hospital, you're looking at a shattered hip and an imaging report that reads 'lumbar burst fracture.' A Labor Law § 240(1) ladder fall case is exactly what N