"Two construction workers who claim they contracted Legionnaires' disease while working at or near Harlem Hospital Center are suing contractors they allege failed to safeguard water cooling towers at the building against contamination by the bacteria that causes the illness. Duane Headley and Nunzio Quinto, both from Nassau County in Long Island, allege in court papers they contracted Legionnaires' disease while working construction sites at or near Harlem Hospital Center, in the Central Harlem community at the center of a deadly weekslong outbreak."
"Harlem Hospital was among the 10 buildings where the city identified cooling towers that tested positive for the Legionella bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease, a severe pneumonia. Five people have died and 108 have been sickened in the outbreak, according to city data through Tuesday. The city has said 12 water cooling towers in all - spread across the 10 buildings - had tested positive for Legionella."
Two construction workers, Duane Headley and Nunzio Quinto, allege they contracted Legionnaires' disease while working at or near Harlem Hospital Center and are suing general contractors Rising Sun Construction LLC and Skanska USA Building for failing to safeguard water cooling towers against Legionella contamination. The workers' lawyers also plan to sue the city, which owns Harlem Hospital. Harlem Hospital was among 10 buildings with cooling towers that tested positive for Legionella. The outbreak has sickened 108 people and killed five. Twelve towers across the 10 buildings tested positive and were remediated, while DNA sequencing to link towers to infections is still pending.
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