Dive Brief:
- Tragedy struck construction in midtown Manhattan for the second time in less than two weeks when a worker fell from a rooftop to his death Tuesday.
- New York City police said the man, whose identity had not been released, was working 12 stories up and landed on scaffolding used to put a protective roof over pedestrians on the sidewalk in front of the building.
- The death, at 434 West 33rd St. bore similarities to a worker's death in a fall April 2 at a building on West 55th Street.
Dive Insight:
The city Department of Buildings' records showed that officials issued a stop-work order Tuesday afternoon, citing failure to protect workers adequately, unsafe storage of materials on the roof and no rooftop guardrails on two sides. The newspaper reported that the building has two open complaints and 41 open violations.