Construction Worker Falls 48 Stories
A construction worker was killed this week after falling 48 storied at a Manhattan construction site. Fire workers said that the man was working with a crew to dismantle a crane when he lost his footing. He stumbled from a walkway between the crane and the building.
Witnesses say they saw the man fall in a construction lot that was surrounded by a fence. The authorities placed his body in an ambulance. He was working on a glass-walled skyscraper between the 41st and 42nd streets and 10th and 11th avenues in Midtown Manhattan.
More than 20 people have died in New York City construction accidents this year, including nine in two crane collapses. A window worker died last week after falling 12 stories from a Manhattan building.