Two separate lawsuits have been filed over the deadly Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Harlem. Both lawsuits claim construction companies failed to protect workers from unsafe conditions that led to the spread of the disease.

About one in 10 people who get sick from Legionnaires' disease die from the disease due to complications from illness, CDC said.

Two construction workers who contracted Legionnaires’ disease while on the job in Harlem are suing over what attorney and civil rights activist Ben Crump called a “preventable outbreak” that