Woman, 33, on breathing tube with serious head trauma and two others are injured after scaffolding on a 12-story Brooklyn building collapses and crashes into a bar courtyard below
- Three people were injured when a gust of wind blew scaffolding off a 12-story building and into a bar courtyard below
- Large pieces of metal and wood crashed through the bar’s glass atrium
- Kathleen Keating, 33, sustained a serious head injury from the falling debris
- Two other women received non-life-threatening injuries during the incident
- Authorities put a stop-work order on construction of the apartment building
- The building had previously had 22 complaints filed against it since 2016
A woman was seriously injured and two others were hurt when scaffolding fell of a rooftop and into the courtyard of a bar in New York City Sunday afternoon.
The FDNY said that construction workers were working on the roof of a 12-story building in Brooklyn when a wind gust tore the scaffolding off the bulkhead, according to NBC New York.
The scaffolding, comprised of large pieces of metal and wood, then plummeted down into the courtyard of the bar next door, Mission Dolores, breaking through the glass atrium and leading to three people being injured, CBS New York reported.
Three women were injured when a gust of wind blew scaffolding off the roof of the 12-story Parlour Building (left), sending it crashing into the two-story bar below (center)
Large pieces of metal and wood plummeted off the rooftop and crashed through the glass ceiling of the bar’s courtyard. One woman was seriously injured, two others were also hurt
Kathleen Keating, 33, received a serious head injury during the incident and was taken to the hospital. Two other women suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were also taken to the hospital.
Kathleen’s father, Kevin Keating, told the New York Post that the debris hit her in the back of the head and that she was given a CAT scan and put on a breathing tube.
Storms were reported in the area at the time when the gust of wind blew the scaffolding down.
‘To hear that something fell and knocked your sister unconscious and now she’s intubated, it was surreal and terrifying,’ Kathleen’s sister, Caroline Keating, 27, told the newspaper. ‘You feel helpless at that point. It’s kind of wild just a little bit of wind from a storm has caused this amount of injury.’
Neighborhood residents told CBS New York that when they heard the scaffolding falling, they thought a truck had crashed in the street or that it was thunder.
The scaffolding fell off the building and down into the Mission Dolores bar’s courtyard
A look at the damaged glass ceiling from inside the Mission Dolores bar in Brooklyn
The glass atrium of the Mission Dolores Bar where as it looked before Sunday’s incident
Pieces of scaffolding were seen hanging off the Parlour Building on Sunday evening
Others reported that they thought it was an earthquake when their building shook after the scaffolding hit it.
The Brooklyn Eagle reported that the Buildings Department put a stop-work order on the building, called the Parlour Residences, and told contractor Silvercup Scaffolding to remove any scaffolding that was not still properly secured.
Pieces of the scaffolding were still said to be hanging from the building on Sunday night.
The Parlour Residences, a boutique apartment building with condos being sold for $3million, now has 23 complaints filed against it since 2016, when demolition of the previous building began.
On June 26, a contractor was fined $1,500 for failure to certify correction of an immediately hazardous condition, apparently related to sidewalks, temporary walkways, footbridges and pathways.
The Department of Buildings is said to be investigating the incident.