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P’ Slope construction workers suffer injuries in separate incidents
BIG DOWNER: A worker fell down a fl ight of stairs at a Fourth Avenue construction site about an hour after another worker fell three stories down
an elevator shaft at a Fifth Avenue construction site. Photo by Paul Martinka
BY COLIN MIXSON
Two Park Slope construction
workers were sent to Methodist
Hospital following accidents
at two separate work
sites that occurred within
about an hour of each other on
May 14, in a bizarre, but fortunately
non-life-threatening coincidence.
The fi rst injury occurred
after a worker at a Fifth Avenue
construction site between
17th and 18th streets plummeted
down an elevator shaft
at 2:45 p.m., and paramedics
rushed him to Methodist Hospital
on Seventh Avenue with
serious injuries, according to
a spokesman for the Fire Department.
About an hour later, a
worker at a nearby Fourth
Avenue construction site between
16th and 17th streets
was injured after he fell down
a fl ight of stairs at around 4
p.m. that day, according to
other workers at the site.
He was transported by the
Park Slope Volunteer Ambulance
Corps service to Methodist
Hospital for treatment,
according to a spokesman.
Following the Fifth Avenue
incident, fi refi ghters noti-
fi ed the Department of Buildings
and inspectors came to
issue a stop-work order after
discovering the site had been
vacated.
They also issued violations
to both the general contractor
and construction superintendent
for failure to report
the worker’s fall, according to
Buildings Department spokesman
Andrew Rudansky.
During a follow-up inspection
on May 15, city Buildings
sleuths determined the
worker had plummeted a
terrifying 40 feet after falling
through an open elevator
shaft, and issued additional
violations including failure
to safeguard the construction
site, failure to provide property
safety barriers around
an open elevator shaft, and
use of an under-construction
elevator device without property
city inspection and approval,
Rudansky said.
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