Construction worker plunges to death at East Side high-rise
Updated Monday, April 14th 2008, 10:33 PM Link here
Kevin Kelly died in fall from 23rd floor of high rise (below) after ring holding safety harness to condo came away from concrete ceiling.
Schwartz for News A 25-year-old construction worker plunged nine floors to his death on Monday at an East Side high-rise, police said.
Kevin Kelly of Queens was killed when the metal ring holding his safety harness to the building pulled away from a concrete ceiling of the condo rising at 400 E. 67th St., officials said.
Kelly, who plummeted from the 23rd floor to the 14th, is the 13th construction worker killed on the job in the city this year, Buildings Department records show.
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A site inspection - triggered by the March 15 crane collapse at East 51st St. that killed seven people - found there was no plumb and torque inspection report to ensure the crane there had been properly installed.
The condo, the Laurel, is next to Public School 168 on 67th St. between First and York Aves. Children were playing in the schoolyard when Kelly fell.
The tragedy comes amid a 12% jump in high-rise development and an 83% spike in construction accidents.
(edit)Residents nervous over building sites
Sunday, April 13th 2008, 4:00 AM
Tracy for News Site of a planned four-story condo at 1175 44th St. has been subject to a stop-work order.
Scaffolds improperly attached to buildings. Sidewalk sheds missing braces. Untrained workers installing crucial safety equipment.
These are among the imminently dangerous conditions involving scaffolds and sidewalks found by the Buildings Department at 43 building sites across Brooklyn deemed so unsafe they were shut down last month during a citywide safety crackdown.
Most of the sites are up and running again, but many Brooklyn residents living or working near them are still afraid. (edit)...
Many New Yorkers often go out of their way to avoid walking under building scaffolding - including Buildings Commissioner Patricia Lancaster, who admitted to the Daily News' Editorial Board last year she crosses the street to avoid walking under the structures. (edit)...
