Construction workers banned from site after woman injured in ‘flying chisel’ accident
A construction company honored last year for its safety program has banned seven of its workers from a New York City worksite, after a flying jack hammer chisel from the project shattered a window in a neighboring building and injured a woman.
“The employees [of Skanska USA] failed to follow well established and proper safety procedures despite a safety briefing that morning,” the city said Friday in a joint statement from the Sanitation Department and the Department of Design & Construction. “The workers in question have been banned from the East 91st Street MTS site.”