FDNY officials said following what was described as a major technical rescue from a Bronx construction site in the Olinville section of the borough, six people suffered injuries, including three who were hospitalized.

 

FDNY officials said they received a call at 4.07 p.m. on Tuesday, July 11, and units responded to 3073 Barker Avenue for reports of a partial wall collapse.

“Members were able to determine that the incident had occurred at a construction site a that location,” FDNY officials said. “There were six patients.”

 

They said three were treated at the scene but refused transportation to hospital, and three were transported to Jacobi Medical Center in Morris Park. Their conditions or descriptions were unknown.

They said NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) was notified of the incident which was “placed under control” at 4.45 p.m.

 

When contacted, Ryan Deegan, DOB deputy press secretary said that from a preliminary report on the incident, DOB personnel were called to the location, a seven-story new building under construction, to conduct a structural stability inspection after receiving reports that a retaining wall had partially collapsed at the site.

Deegan said that at the scene, inspectors determined that while workers were pouring concrete on the second floor, plywood formwork and shoring gave way, causing a 50 feet ×30 feet section (approximately) of the second floor which was under construction to partially collapse onto the first floor.

He said DOB also inspected several neighboring buildings and observed no damage arising from the incident. Following the inspection, the Deegan said DOB issued a violation for the site’s failure to institute adequate safety measures to prevent the collapse. He said DOB also placed a Full Stop Work Order on the site until repairs can be made. Deegan said two workers incurred “minor injuries” according to emergency officials.

 

A stop work order letter was seen posted at the site on July 12 and the area was still sealed off with yellow tape. One man said he hoped that everyone working there was ok.

 

The site is run by 3073 Barker Development LLC, with an address at 1303 Seawene Drive, Hewlett Harbor, NY, 11557, established in 2018. We are trying to reach the company for comment.

As reported, three building contractors were charged in the first Bronx manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide case following a construction accident in which Ecuadorian immigrant worker, Segundo Manuel Huerta Mayancela, 46, died at 94 East 208th Street in Norwood on Aug. 27, 2019.

 

Three migrant construction workers in their twenties, one from Ecuador and one with a young family, who were seriously burned following a work place accident / flash fire in the Williamsbridge section of The Bronx have filed a negligence lawsuit against BE Bronx Builders, LLC, Stagg Group, and Mark Stagg, as reported. The accident occurred at 739 East Gun Hill Road, a new building under construction, on Monday, May 15, as reported.

Meanwhile, in Wakefield, on Tuesday, June 6, as reported, after a worker fell 30 feet from a building site at 4180 Carpenter Avenue, NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) issued various violations to Stagg Group, which was also one of the entities behind the development at that Wakefield site.