In November 2008, WNYC aired a two-part report called 'The Cost of Doing Business.' It was an in-depth look at a construction accident that took the life of Mexican immigrant Jose Palacios. Palacios fell off of a poorly secured scaffold at a new luxury condominium tower in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Now, a year later, reporters Matthew Schuerman and Cindy Rodriguez revisit the story.

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