"World's Tallest Residential Building": 217 West 57 Street

Currently, there's no insurance company writing individual insurance policies for crane operators. The GC covers most of the insurance issues on construction jobs where a crane is working in the 5 boros. But that won't prevent a worker who gets his finger crushed by a piece of steel, from suing the operator personally. In the crane operator industry it boils down to one thing, You hoist it , you own it. Plus look out when NYC DOB walks on the job, most fines are $25,000 , personally writtin to the operator. Example : Few years ago a local 14 operator in a tower crane up over 40 stories, was unloading steel off a flatbed trailer parked in the street. The work area was properly barricaded, pedestrians were blocked off. Flag personnel at both ends directing traffic. I believe this was during a St Patrick's Day Parade. Some drunken clown walks off 5th Ave, gets past the flagman while the operator had the load off the truck and passing upper floors. NYC DOB was observing on the block, immediately shut the job down and the only person who got a $25,000 fine was the sucker operator in the seat.

The $100 dollar an hour job comes with great risks in NYC....