New lawsuits accuse construction companies in deadly New York City outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease

A pair of construction companies ignored security problems, causing an “completely preventable” epidemic of Legionaries’ disease in New York which killed at least five people and in fact tens more, according to prosecution on Wednesday.

The Harlem epidemic was traced on July 26 with clusters in the Upper Manhattan 10027, 10030, 10035, 10037 and 10039 postal codes, said officials.

“This medical tragedy which led to the death of five citizens of Harlem, whom we know, was a completely preventable epidemic,” the complainants’ lawyer, Ben Crump, told journalists.

“It was completely avoidable. And so when companies cut the corners, tragedies like this occur, avoidable tragedies, unnecessary tragedies, hospitalized people for days and weeks, having problems that cause them permanent damage.”

Reps for defendants, Skanska USA Building, Inc. and Rising Sun Construction LLC. could not be immediately joined to comment on Wednesday.

The construction worker, Duane Headley, filed a complaint against the growing sun, claiming that he was disgusting when he was working on a construction site at 506 Lenox Ave., near Harlem hospital.

The sunrise rises “created and authorized a defective, dangerous and / or dangerous condition” where Headley worked, said the trial.

Headley survived the disease but remains hospitalized, lawyers said.

Nunzio Quinto claims that he was exposed to Legionella bacteria while working at the New York City Public Health Laboratory Building, near Harlem Hospital, 40 W. 137th St.

Quinto, who continues Skanska, said that the accused “had violated his duty” to “timely remedy the colonization of the Legionllel of the Distribution of Water and / or Cooling Systems”, according to his trial.

“I had no energy and I could do nothing,” said Quinto to journalists. “I’m finally starting to get up and walk a little now and I can do basic things.”

While the complainants are looking for financial compensation for their medical expenses, their wages, the pain and the lost sufferings, Quinto said that he hoped that these civil actions find reasons behind the epidemic.

“But my thing is that I want answers to what is going on,” said Quinto, alongside Crump Civil Rights and Reverend Al Sharpton. “I can’t have a safe place to work? Is this New York.”