City officials are calling for improved safety measures at construction sites after a worker fell to his death in Manhattan this week.
As WCBS 880’s Jim Smith reported, standing at the construction site at 46th Street and Eighth Avenue where the worker fell to his death down an elevator shaft, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer said, “Here was a grim responsibility to demand safety in and around New York City’s construction sites.”
Brewer said the city already this year has surpassed the eight construction deaths in all of the previous year.
The Department of Buildings says it takes aggressive enforcement action against unsafe construction professionals. It says development is at an all-time high, and with that comes more accidents.
Sure, they'll call for action at the hearing, then forget about it until the next death. After all, there's money to be made by the people who line their pockets.
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i'm the first one to shit all over DOB, and while i can't find the BIS entry at the moment, i did before and am pretty sure they were fined 3 times on 3 separate occasions. i can't say this wasn't preventable and that DOB was the boogeyman on this one.
I love how these bum politicians show up with concern etched on their faces during a press conference behind their silly podiums.
Most of them don't have an intelligent bone in their body.
The firm working the shaft at that tumor/hotel was not even registered to work in the city. So what's this aggression the DOB is talking about.
This is really obscene, almost pornographic. Phoney pols capitalizing on a workers death. They'll do it every time and do nothing of any substance other than showing up for the picture... Can these fuckers...
Don't know what the rule is on 421 a but it seems like there is an awful lot of rushed construction going on.
There is the school on Skillman Avenue in Woodside that has been engaged in round the clock construction 7 a.m. to 9 or 10 p.m. 7 days a week since December 29th (while school is in session).
That women look like she rolled in cow dung
He's making this into a racial inequality issue??? A good majority of job site workers are most likely undocumented or holding illegal paperwork.
No N train to Queens either.
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