At this moment in time his condition is said to be serious. The authorities are trying to piece together how the accident was caused. It appears that the man was working on a ledge 25 feet high on the scaffold. He was wearing the appropriate safety harness and had been trained and was qualified to carry out this type of work.
The sites safety managers had held a talk with all their construction workers the day previously to discuss safe practice when using scaffold.
Betsy Vorce, speaking on behalf of the Lincoln Center where the worker fell had this to say “Those of us at Lincoln Center are sending him our thoughts and prayers tonight.” She said that the injure worker was conscious when emergency services arrived to take him to hospital.
The accident came at a time when the city has been discussing the alarming number of accidents which have occurred within New York’s construction industry so far this year.
Thirteen people have died as a result of accidents at work in the construction industry in just under four months so far this year. That’s more than in the whole of 2007, when just 12 people died in 12 months. At this rate accidental deaths at work in the construction industry are up threefold.
There are plans for engineering experts to be hired to carry out checks on construction sites and ensure that safety regulations are being followed.
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