NYC Council Introduction 865

intro.nyc/0865-2024 2024-2025 Legislative Session
Records of the chief medical examiner that relate to work-related fatal injuries in the workplace, and to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on workplace fatalities.
Status: Laid Over in Committee Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
Sponsored by Carmen N. De La Rosa
Introduced: May 16, 2024

This bill would require the commissioner of consumer and worker protection (commissioner) to establish and maintain an online, publicly available database that compiles information related to workplace fatalities that occur in New York City. To facilitate maintenance of such database, this bill would require the chief medical examiner to deliver to the commissioner reports of deaths that, in the chief medical examiner’s judgment, occur as the result of a work-related fatal injury in the workplace. This bill would also require direct employers, contractors, and subcontractors to provide the commissioner with additional information in relation to such deaths. A failure to report such information would be punishable by a civil penalty of no less than $1,000 and no more than $2,500 for each violation.