Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Glass panel falls, kills worker on job site
From CBS 2:
A security guard was killed and a worker was hurt when a large panel of glass fell at a construction site near Central Park Saturday morning.
The FDNY said it responded to calls for a construction related accident at 217 West 57th St. just after 10:30 a.m.
When medics arrived they observed that a large glass panel had fallen onto 67-year-old Harry Ramnauth.
He was rushed to Mt. Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A 27-year-old construction worker was hurt, as well. His injuries are believed to be non-life threatening.
Police said the glass panel was in the process of being moved when it fell and crushed the 67-year-old, who was working as as security guard at the location.
The incident remains under investigation.
The property already had a stop work order in effect when this happened.
9 comments:
Just a guess- no safety training, no safety equipment, no paperwork, no supervision.......
With the rabid rush to build, it will happen again. With REBNY at the helm of City Hall, and a lax-corrupt DOB....maybe "Chicken Little" was right. "the sky is falling".
Not to worry....mere collateral damage...acceptable in the eyes of the overdevelopers! Just a cost of doing business. Hmmmm....and weren't we all taught that human life is priceless?
Union? Legal immigrant? Where is the meat of the story?
Stop Work order? Why?
This passes for journalism?
The meat of the story is that the City is powerless to stop these crappy construction companies. The stop work order was issued for this same problem of falling glass yet somehow the company was back at work again and now one person is dead and one is injured.
This goes on constantly in this City and there's no end in sight.
It wasn't even a construction worker that perished, it was an old security guard who apparently was told by supervisors to look the other way since a worker was on site that also got injured.. Not only was he a casualty and yes collateral damage for the gentrification industrial complex but also this brutal U.S. economy where retirement is impossible for most of the elderly who still have to pay dues late in life with the inflated costs of living including insurance, medicine and the goddamn rent.
Put this guard on the list of unnecessary deaths with the man who crushed by a giant crane on Worth St and the guy who got crushed at a Chetrit Brothers job site in Jamaica that also had a stop work order months ago.
Maybe there should be what we call consequences. Perhaps incidences like this that occur during a stop work order should be treated as more of a serious crime, not just a fine. This should be regarded as a criminal act to continue the construction; it certainly shouldn't be just a mere slap on the wrist. It appears that developers are calling all the shots and rule of law is a nuisance. Someone lost their life!
>Just a guess- no safety training, no safety equipment, no paperwork, no supervision.......
How much training do you need for a job that's just "if strangers come in, ask them to leave, if they don't, call the cops"?
Explain to me how all those nice Italian families are asking the city to repeal its scaffolding laws for such things?
"Consequences? We don't need no stinkin' consequences".
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