Woman seriously injured by falling pipe in Midtown

[hrmjustin]

Eyewitness News
NEW YORK (WABC) -- A womas was seriously injured when she was struck by debris that fell off scaffolding in Midtown Monday morning.

The incident happened on 42nd Street between Madison and Fifth avenues around 8:30 a.m.

A 10-foot long metal pipe crashed to the ground in front of a McDonald's from scaffolding two doors down, where a company called West New York Restoration was building the scaffolding as part of a facade-cleaning project.

According to fellow workers at the site, one of them just lost his grip on the pipe, dropping it 18 stories to the ground below.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9391412

[flamingdem]

1. Yow, I wonder how often that happens

in a city with so many opportunities for things to drop on those below.

[hrmjustin]

2. It happens fairly often.