Overview
- FDNY officials say the worker fell around 8:50 a.m. from roughly 50 feet on a freshly poured foundation wall into an excavation about 60 feet deep.
- Fire crews found him without a pulse, performed CPR, hoisted him out with a stokes basket, and he later died at a hospital.
- The victim worked for New York Concrete Corporation, and project partners issued condolences and halted operations at the Hudson Yards site.
- The NYC District Council of Carpenters identified the worker as Jorge Sanchez, 52, and said the union is supporting his family.
- The fall occurred at the Hudson Yards casing for the Gateway/Hudson River Tunnel project connecting to Penn Station, and officials say the cause remains unknown.