During June, New York City inspectors shut down 322 buildings because of hazardous conditions, according to www.constructiondive.com. The affected sites include full and partial stop work orders.
The New York City Department of Buildings also issued more than 1,129 violations for safety and noncompliance issues at those sites. In June, inspectors visited more than 2,100 of the city’s larger and more complex building construction sites.
Following a series of construction worker deaths earlier this year, DOB Commissioner Melanie E. La Rocca mobilized teams of enforcement inspectors in early June to perform “zero-tolerance” safety sweeps.
Additionally, the DOB released a report June 29 that showed declines in injuries and deaths on New York City’s construction sites in 2019 and 2020; 595 injuries and 12 deaths were reported in 2019 compared with 502 injuries and eight deaths in 2020. The report provides an analysis of major building construction incidents during the past two years that led to fatal or near-fatal outcomes, detailing factors that led to these incidents.
