Thursday, February 26, 2015

WORKER SERIOUSLY HURT IN NYC PARTIAL GARAGE COLLAPSE, FIRE OFFICIALS SAY; SCHOOL BUS AND CARS WAS DAMAGED BY COLLAPSED SCAFFOLDING





 









FEBRUARY 25, 2015

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN

Emergency workers responded to a partial building collapse on the west side of Manhattan Wednesday.  The building was an old garage that was being demolished.  Here is a photo of the old garage prior to the demolition.



A spokesman for the FDNY told Yahoo News that the three-story building (a parking garage), located at 642West 57th Street between 11th and 12th avenues, was under demolition.   About 16 construction workers were inside the building when it collapsed.

One construction worker was transported to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, the spokesman said, as first responders continued to look for any other victims and assess the site.  The outer shell of a New York City building that was under demolition has partially collapsed, injuring a construction worker.

Fire department spokesman Brian Norton says the worker rode down the collapse Wednesday afternoon by standing on scaffolding or part of the three-story midtown Manhattan building as it crumbled.

Several vehicles and school buses near the building were damaged. A bus driver was sleeping in a parked school bus right outside the building when the collapse happened, but he was not injured.

Aerial photos of the scene showed scaffolding collapsed onto a school bus parked outside the structure.

It's unclear what caused the collapse. The NYPD spokesman said the department is investigating.

The collapse happened a day after a construction worker at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn was crushed to death when several steel beams fell on him.