According to The New York Times, a worker believed to be in his 40’s died last week when he was involved in a scaffolding accident at the Dream New York hotel in Midtown Manhattan.  The man, who was working for Alpha General Contracting of New York, had been doing work on the hotel’s façade when he fell approximately 80 feet through a portion of the scaffolding where wooden planks had apparently fallen away or been removed.  The man landed on the sidewalk shed covering the front entrance of the hotel.  He was pronounced dead at the Weill Cornell Medical Center...