You're pulling cable through a ceiling grid on a gut renovation in Midtown Manhattan when your fish tape brushes an energized 480-volt feeder that was supposed to be locked out. There's a flash, your arm goes rigid, and you're thrown off the ladder. At the hospital, the entry wound on your hand looks small — a burn the size of a quarter. But electrocution injuries on NYC construction sites are iceberg injuries: the visible mark is a fraction of the damage. The current that en

You're tied off on a steel-frame project on the West Shore of Staten Island, leaning into an angle grinder to cut a stubborn piece of rebar. The cut-off wheel hits a hidden weld, shatters, and a fragment of the disc punches through your safety glasses — or worse, you weren't wearing any because no one on the crew had been issued the right ones. Within ninety seconds, your right eye is bleeding, your vision is gray, and a foreman is hustling you toward a pickup truck. By the n