A masonry block struck a worker in an elevator shaft at 350 Park Avenue in Midtown on August 24, according to Buildings Department records. The incident log records one injury; the department issued six violations the same day, five of them against W5 Group LLC, totaling $32,500.

The individual charges, as recorded: $10,000 for failure to safeguard; $5,000 because the permit holder did not immediately notify the department of the accident; $5,000 because the supported scaffold in use was not maintained — missing vertical joining pins, unsecured platform planks, planks stacked on planks; and $5,000 because the site's designated primary safety manager was serving in that role on two permits at once.

One violation stands apart from the rest: $5,000 because the planks the worker had been standing on were removed after the incident. The record states that fact without elaboration, and this desk will do the same — but preserving conditions after an accident is not optional, and the department wrote it up as its own offense.

All six violations are active with hearings in late October. The one-manager-two-permits charge lands on a theme this paper has covered all summer: the city has been tightening exactly who must be present, on exactly how many jobs, because presence is the whole point of the role.