New York City is full of a bunch of pricks.
The rise of GLP-1 drugs has led to a sharp uptick in injuries among Big Apple sanitation workers — thanks to needles being carelessly tossed in the trash.
So far in 2026, 57 needle-stick injuries have been reported among city Department of Sanitation workers — already exceeding the 51 recorded in all of 2025 and the 37 reported in 2024.
Only 25 workers were pricked in 2019.
Brooklyn has reported the most cases this year, with 16, followed by the Bronx and Queens, with 11 each.
Staten Island, despite being the city’s smallest borough by population, has recorded 10 injuries.
Manhattan has recorded nine.
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