{"id":146703,"date":"2026-02-26T23:07:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146703\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T23:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:07:26","slug":"one-man-killed-another-seriously-injured-in-brooklyn-construction-collapse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146703\/","title":{"rendered":"One man killed, another seriously injured in Brooklyn construction collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One man was killed and another man was seriously injured after a wall collapsed at a Brooklyn construction site Thursday morning, cops said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victims, ages 47 and 40, were caught in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/02\/nairobi-tall-building-collapse\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:collapse at the work site;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">collapse at the work site<\/a>, on Jefferson St. near Central Ave. in Bushwick, around 8:33 a.m., according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters extracted the pair of men after finding them trapped inside a caved-in construction trench, according to an FDNY spokesman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Medics rushed them both to <a href=\"https:\/\/nychealthandhospitals-appservice-east-us.azurewebsites.net\/locations\/kings-county\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kings County Hospital;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kings County Hospital<\/a>, where the older victim died, cops said. The other man is listed in critical but stable condition, said police<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The workers were removing debris as part of work on the building\u2019s foundation when rubble from a neighboring building\u2019s foundation collapsed onto the two workers, according to a Department of Buildings spokesman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">DOB issued a full stop-work order for the site, in addition to partial vacate orders for the rear yards of neighboring buildings on either side of the work site until stabilization work is completed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city had permitted the project to partially demolish a preexisting, two-story, two-unit dwelling, which was planned to be enlarged into a four-story, seven-unit building, a DOB spokesman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One man was killed and another man was seriously injured after a wall collapsed at a Brooklyn construction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,5421,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-146703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-construction-site","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}