_Maxolotl t1_izht7ik wrote
Reply to comment by jl2l in Inside the Fight to Pay Food Delivery Workers $23 an Hour by jl2l
I found seven news stories about delivery guys dying on the job in NYC in the last 12 months. First two pages of google search results. I might not have found every incident.
Dec. 14, 2021: Salvador Navarette-Flores. Hit an illegally parked truck. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2021/12/14/moped-rider-killed-in-crash-with-truck-in-illegal-loading-zone-cops-and-a-witness-says/
Christmas Eve, 2021: Taurino Rosendo Morales
https://abc7ny.com/new-york-city-upper-east-side-delivery-worker-struck-pedestrian/11390331/
April 30, 2022. Zhiwen Yan.
Allegedly murdered over sauce, by a customer who later killed himself: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/diner-pleads-not-guilty-to-killing-nyc-delivery-worker-over-condiment-dispute/3719042/
July 3, 2022. Christian Catalan. Hit and run:
https://abc7ny.com/bronx-delivery-worker-killed-christian-catalan-hit-and-run-driver/12029766/
July 11, 2022, Eduardo Valencia. Crashed into a pole. https://www.ourtownny.com/news/vigil-continues-for-ues-cyclist-killed-in-crash-DC2141445
August 4, 2022: Daniel Vidal. Run over by a truck. https://www.ny1.com/nyc/brooklyn/news/2022/08/06/food-delivery-worker-run-over-by-truck-after-falling-off-motorcycle
August 14, 2022. Be Tran. Age 74. Hit and Run:
https://www.today.com/food/news/doordash-delivery-worker-killed-hit-run-rcna44012
FineAunts t1_izi8j86 wrote
Not to start a pissing contest but I'd be curious how many FDNY died on the job in the past couple of years vs delivery workers.
_Maxolotl t1_iziswow wrote
from 2002 through this year, one to three FDNY firefighters or EMTs have died on the job each year, except in 2005, when four died. https://ufanyc.org/line-of-duty-deaths/
sagenumen t1_izibr0v wrote
It’s irrelevant. If the job exists, the person doing it should be able to thrive on the wage.
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