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Two Upper West Side Construction Workers Die In Scaffolding Fall

Two men were killed in a New York City construction site accident this week – and an initial investigation has revealed that the construction company in charge of the site may have been violating several Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) federal regulations.

According to the New York Post, the men were working on the seventh storey of a building when the beam they were standing on collapsed. The pair fell five stories down an under-construction elevator shaft. The construction site was located at 150 West 83rd St. on the Upper West Side and the fatal construction accident took place on the morning of February 8, 2011.

The construction site had been cited for violations as recently as the Sunday before the deadly worker accident, when a building inspector found loose building materials on the construction site’s roof. Earlier in the year, construction stopped on the $6.2 million project after complaints of scaffolding problems. The construction site was formally a parking garage.

Both men were rushed to local hospitals. One worker, a 49-year-old man, was pronounced dead at Roosevelt Hospital in New York, while the other worker, a 51-year-old man, was pronounced dead at St. Luke’s Hospital in New York. Neither man was wearing a safety harness at the time of the fall accident.

The construction company, Redeemer, The New York Police Department, and the New York Department of Building will be investigating the fatal construction worker accident. In addition, the OSHA is also expected to conduct an investigation to determine the cause of the accident.

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