Seven workers banned from East Side waste transfer station site after 'flying chisel' accident
ANNIE KARNI
A group of seven construction workers at the Upper East Side waste transfer station were banned from the site Friday, after a woman was injured by a flying jack hammer chisel that shattered a window at the nearby Asphalt Green recreation center.
“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.”
On Wednesday, Asphalt Green employee Robin Cocking, 59, was exercising when the 10-pound chisel from the neighboring construction project came flying through the gym’s fourth floor window. She was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital after suffering minor cuts from the broken window pane, and received a tetanus shot before being released.
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/skanska-usa-bans-workers-upper-east-side-waste-transfer-station-site-accident-blog-entry-1.1863297