Overview
- FDNY and police responded just before 9 a.m. Thursday to a report of a worker falling at a site near West 30th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan.
- Authorities said the worker was later pronounced dead after rescue crews descended into the pit and performed CPR.
- FDNY described the fall as roughly 60 feet, while earlier reports varied on the distance and initial condition.
- Police said the worker was on the ground floor when he fell into a construction hole at the Hudson Yards site.
- The victim was identified by officials as an employee of New York Concrete Corporation, and the Gateway Development Commission, Amtrak, and Related offered condolences.