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Brooklyn Building Collapse Construction Accident Caused by Pouring Concrete

Posted on Nov 15, 2011

Around 2:30pm on Tuesday, November 15^th – a Brooklyn five-story apartment building collapsed with construction workers still inside. Firefighters worked to rescue five construction workers from the collapsed building from under shards of corrugated metal – one worker died, three are in stable condition at Lutheran Medical Center, and the fifth who was working outside the building when it collapsed declined medical treatment.

 

Cause of Construction Site Accident Building Collapse

The commissioner of the Buildings Department, Robert LiMandri, indicated that construction workers were pouring concrete at the top floor and working their way down, instead of the safer technique of starting at the ground level and working their way up. In a briefing on Tuesday night, Mr. LiMandri said, “they were pouring concrete in the wrong sequence, and we believe that that is a major contributor to this collapse today.”

A complaint was made by a neighbor on Saturday about the noise from after-hours work at the construction site, but Mr. LiMandri said the Buildings Department did not follow up on the complaint immediately. He did say the two events were not connected, but that investigators would continue their search to conclude the actual reason for the building collapse.

Work has stopped at the New York construction site until further notice.

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