NY construction worker killed in struck by accident
A construction worker was killed at a Brooklyn, New York worksite on the day before Thanksgiving by a piece of sheet metal that fell from an unapproved forklift.
News sources say 44-year-old Over Paredes of Newark, New Jersey was working on the roof of a six-story condo development when a manual forklift that was hoisting part of a metal-framed wall topped onto its side, releasing the metal. The city’s Department of Buildings (DOB) had reportedly approved the use of a powered forklift at the site — not the manual type that was involved in the incident.