![]() ![]() The Fulton Street site is under a full stop work order following Telemena Puli’s death, records show. ![]() The father of three was a member of the Structural Steel & Bridge Painters of Greater New York Local Union 806. On Tuesday, Jeremy Rozan, 34, of Staten Island, fell to his death from the Roosevelt Avenue overpass in Queens and was hit by a passing driver on the Van Wyck Expressway below. Tenelema Puli is the second construction worker to die on the job in as many days this week, and the seventh construction worker fatality so far this year, compared to nine construction worker fatalities by this time last year. In a phone call, an employee of CIP Services LLC, who declined to give his name, asserted the firm had not worked at the 625 Fulton site for over a year and a half before ending the call. Galaxy and a subcontractor, CIP Services LLC, remedied issues in each instance and paid fines totaling $20,000 for three of the violations, DOB records show. The Fulton Street construction project had been cited by the buildings department for “immediately hazardous” safety conditions repeatedly since March 2021 - including for failing to provide a site safety manager and failing to provide safety equipment. We are cooperating with the Department of Buildings in any investigation into this tragic accident.” Hazardous Conditions “We have complied with all required safety rules, and we expect all contractors and subcontractors on the site to do the same. “We are deeply saddened at the tragic accident that happened at our work site and extend our sympathies to the family of the worker for Colgate Scaffolding who fell from a sidewalk shed as it was being installed,” said Bob Liff, a spokesperson for Galaxy Developers, the project’s general contractor. The project’s developer is the Rabsky Group in Brooklyn, which has built other housing and is behind the redevelopment of Bushwick’s Rheingold Brewery. The Colgate Scaffolding crew was erecting the sidewalk shed on the perimeter of the foundation for 625 Fulton St., a planned 35-story residential and retail tower. “The whole situation is very unfortunate,” he said in Spanish. He knew something was wrong on Wednesday when it was a distraught relative, and not Tenelema Puli, who walked through the door at the end of the day. Members and sponsors make THE CITY possible. ![]()
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