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NYC Construction Workers Injured When Brooklyn Building Collapses

Three New York City construction workers and one pedestrian were injured when a building suddenly collapsed in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn on March 28.

The apartment building, which was located on 34 Conselyea Street, was being renovated and was under construction at the time of collapse. Three construction workers were injured, with one worker suffering life-threatening on-the-job injuries. A passer-by who saw the collapse was injured while trying to help get the workers out of the building. All of the construction site injury victims were taken to a nearby NYC hospital for treatment – one of the men was buried up to his head in rubble and had to be extracted.

The New York City Department of Buildings does not know what caused the collapse, but released a statement that it appeared that some of the vital structural support in the building had been removed prior to the collapse. DOB Commissioner Robert LiMandri also told reporters that the organization had received a complaint about the safety of the build on February 4 – more than a month before the collapse took place. Unfortunately, although inspectors went to the building site, they could not get inside the structure to determine its safety. Currently, DOB is looking for engineering plans for the building in order to better determine what went wrong to cause this Brooklyn construction accident.

Those who lived in the neighborhood with the building had noticed that the structure did not seem sound – one street resident reported seeing a crack travel down the side of the building and widen in past weeks.

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