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The Tribeca site where 14,000 pounds of steel fell on a construction trailer last December was hit with more violations yesterday when a "piece of steel fell 18 stories onto a baseball field where dozens of children were playing." Really--the Goldman Sachs site at 200 Murray Street is next to a baseball field and Little Leaguers were playing there yesterday.
Apparently construction workers were bringing up a 30" by 30" piece of steel in an outdoor elevator; the steel was going to be used as a "bridge" to help unload materials. The Daily News explains the steel "plunged...diagonally across from Ground Zero, shortly before 4 p.m. and ended up planted vertically in the outfield." Little League games were canceled and one parents said, "This is the worst place in the world [for this to happen] because on Saturday, it's where everyone is. A piece of sheet metal coming down from the sky while your kid is playing baseball - it's dangerous."
No one was hurt and the Department of Buildings issued five violations and a stop-work order. DOB acting commissioner Robert LiMandri who said the incident was "unacceptable" and said, "The Buildings Department had issued the general contractor, Tishman Construction, a variance to perform work on the weekend. However, this variance did not include the delivery of Sheetrock."
The last incident at the site occurred in December, when a sling broke and 14,000 pounds of steel studs fell 25 stories from a crane, with a quarter of them ripping through a construction trailer; an architect inside the trailer was paralyzed.
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If you're fired by Goldman Sachs are you referred to as Sached?
Hmm. Tishman Construction. Any relation to Tishman Speyer? If so, it's a good thing they won't get the chance to work on a whole bunch of skyscrapers at Hudson Yards. With their luck, the platform built over the railyard would collapse and crush a bunch of occupied Amtrak trains.
Spiritof76: Tishman Construction Company and Tishman Speyer are two separate companies, as far as I know.
http://www.tishmanspeyer.com/
http://www.tishmanconstruction.com/
Even with all the tax breaks and subsidies, they still can't put this piece of shit up without a string of failures and disasters. How many construction projects outside of China leave their own architects in wheelchairs? Pathetic.
Firemen, construction workers, and even architects who work on a job site accept a certain level of risk in their jobs. Can we give the Little Leaguers standing in left field a break though? That potentially skewered kid in the outfield is not collateral damage from the dangerous construction business; he's a freakin' Little Leaguer with a strong arm.
Absolutely. they should either give those kids steel batting helmets or close the diamond during the "fuck up" phase of Goldman's construction.
Why don't we hire some more building inspectors to soften the blow of this news on monday?