Saturday, April 4, 2009

Worker hurt as wall falls at Brooklyn building

(AP) Officials say a wall in a small Brooklyn apartment building has collapsed and hurt a worker during renovations undertaken without a permit.

The city Buildings Department says the worker has been taken to a hospital with minor injuries after the accident Wednesday in a building on Division Avenue, near the Williamsburg neighborhood.

The agency says a non-load-bearing wall gave way on the second of the building's three floors. No one is living in the building.

The Buildings Department has stopped work on the project and cited the building owner with conducting the work without a permit.

No telephone number or representative could be found for the company listed in city records as the building's owner.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

How many times did someone complain and be ignored before the wall fell on the man?

Signed,
Lady whose living room ceiling was formally introduced to her living room floor. Investigations and terminations now, not later.

linda said...

Site safety managers have to be on more sites. was this a union man? any constrution work being done in the tri-area should and only be UNION workers. Well i hope the man is o.k...

Anonymous said...

Yea,the tex-mex union............