A worker's left middle finger was severed during installation of a roughly 200-pound glass panel on the 14th floor of 245 Park Avenue, according to a Buildings Department violation issued August 21. The department cited J.T. Magen & Company Inc., the contractor named in the record, with a Class 1 violation carrying a $5,000 penalty.

Here is the part worth pausing on: DOB's own construction-incident dataset logged the same event with its injury count at zero. The violation text describes a severed finger; the incident row says no injuries. Both are the official record, and they disagree.

That matters beyond one job site. The city's public picture of construction injuries is built from these datasets — researchers cite them, policy gets argued from them, and this paper's own reporting leans on them. When the injury field says zero on an amputation, the injury statistics undercount in a way nobody auditing the numbers would catch without reading the violation text row by row.

The violation is active with a hearing set for late October. The hearing will resolve the charge. The dataset gap is worth someone at the department resolving too.