A makeshift scaffold outside a three-story Hackensack garden apartment complex collapsed Thursday afternoon, critically injuring two laborers while also sending five others to the hospital, authorities told Daily Voice.
The collapse of the jerry-rigged platform sent the victims working on an upper floor 35 feet to the ground just before 3:30 p.m., city Fire Capt. Justin Derevyanik said.
All were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, he said.
A law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the situation told Daily Voice that the company doing the work didn’t have permits. OSHA was among the responders this afternoon, he said.
“We’ve been watching them all week,” a neighbor of the Tracy Place building who requested anonymity told Daily Voice. READ MORE….
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