Two people were seriously injured on Tuesday after scaffolding collapsed outside a building in Brooklyn, the FDNY said.
Fire officials responded to the call at 1:54 p.m. when two workers were just above the fourth-floor level of suspended scaffolding outside of 148 Stuyvesant Ave. in Bed-Stuy, city Department of Buildings spokesperson David Maggiotto said in an email. First responders removed the workers from the scene and sent them to Kings County Hospital, where they were being treated for serious but not life-threatening injuries, the FDNY said.
FDNY Battalion Chief Derek Harkin said the workers were pinned underneath parts of the scaffolding for close to 15 minutes before they were removed.
“They lifted up the debris and they pulled them out and put them on boards and brought them down the stairs and went to the ambulance,” Harkin said while addressing the media outside the building.
The city Department of Buildings was also at the scene on Tuesday afternoon, officials said. Inspectors found that a 20-foot piece of the building’s parapet collapsed and struck the two workers on the scaffold, Maggiotto said. Sections of the scaffold were structurally compromised and will require emergency repairs, he said.
The NYPD closed the sidewalk below to pedestrians as the investigation was ongoing, Maggiotto said.
A complaint involving site conditions endangering workers was filed for the address with the Department of Buildings on Tuesday, according to the DOB database. The matter was being referred to the department’s construction safety enforcement, according to the complaint.
Rebecca Murdock, 31, lives in an apartment inside the building. She told Gothamist the landlord has been helpful and responsive with renovations inside the building since she moved there more than a year ago. Though she said she was still worried about further damage to the scaffolding outside, which had been there for several weeks.
“I’m definitely going to be asking more questions and be watching,”…
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