“Please help investigate his case, because where he worked he said they did not have permission to work,” said the wife of Juan Edifoncio Tamay Ganzhi, a 33-year-old Hispanic who died in a work accident in Brooklyn (NYC).
The woman, who did not want to be given her name in statements to NY1, She became a widow while pregnant, close to giving birth to her third child. Fatality struck the Tamay family at noon Friday, when the basement of a two-story building under construction collapsed at 1266 50th St., Borough Park. The work It violated a stop-work order dated January 4, according to the city’s Department of Buildings (DOB).
“Let it be clear what happened, how he died. Did that company have insurance? Or I don’t know how he worked… Please help, because we are Hispanic and we don’t know what happened,” said Escolásico Tamay, uncle of the deceased worker.
The building owner could face a maximum fine of $12,500 for carrying out work without permits, in addition to criminal prosecution. First responders tried in vain to remove the victim from a mound of dirt, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. Two other workers managed to escape alive.
“The order to stop work was violated,” DOB Commissioner Jimmy Oddo said Friday at the scene of the tragedy. “There is absolutely no plan presented to the Department of Buildings, this fatality should not have occurred at all, they should not have been doing this work, much less have a portable tractor inside this structure.”
“The floor collapsed in a V shape, which means that “Half of the floor collapsed and fell on top of the victim,” said Joseph Ferrante of the Fire Department (FDNY). “We are not sure what caused it. “There was construction material on the ground at the time of the collapse.”
In November, in another dramatic workplace accident in NYC, a 46-year-old Hispanic cleaning worker died after being trapped inside a cement truck in The Bronx (NYC).
In May, the former boss of a young worker who was crushed to death by a falling cabin was charged in the case, two years later, also in the Bronx.
In April it was announced that three contractors would face additional charges for the death of Segundo Huertas (48), an Ecuadorian worker who was the victim of a work accident in the Bronx in the summer of 2019.
2024-02-06 15:26:00
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