The family of Javier Salinas filed a wrongful death lawsuit after Salinas fell more than 50 feet off a construction site. Javier was working at the Chelsea Piers construction site when a gust of wind blew him of the edge in October. Salinas's widow, Rosa Calva, filed the wrongful death suit on his behalf claiming the construction company was negligent and allowed him to scale a roof without a safety harness.
Salinas was installing sheet metal on the roof of the construction site. At the time of his death, he was working for American Buildings, a Trumball contractor working for Ashford Properties Construction. A month after Salinas's death, construction workers protested against Ashford Properties Construction claiming the company hired subcontractors so they didn't have to pay workers compensation benefits. The protesters also claimed AP in an effort to save money scarified the safety of their employees. 
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