Two enforcement files closed by default at the city's administrative court in late August, and together they cover most of the site-safety rulebook. Neither respondent appeared; the charges were sustained as recorded, totaling roughly $99,000.

The first file covers three active Brooklyn sites tied to one respondent, Ace Maintenance USA LLC, across eleven summonses: $57,770. At a Martense Street building, the records describe floors two through seven with no guardrails at an exposed wall and an approximately 70-foot drop, a makeshift pulley system on the seventh floor counterweighted with sandbags on planks, and exposed live electrical panels — with a stop-work order noted. At two Brooklyn Avenue sites: masonry debris dropping onto the neighbor's property with no access agreement, a boom truck placing block at roof level with no overhead protection, and special-inspection reports showing installed beams smaller than the drawings specified — 10-by-6 steel where 12-by-6 was called for.

The second file, six summonses at a Belt Parkway alteration in Brooklyn against Steel Tone Construction, totals $41,250. As recorded: no protection at the sides of an excavation, structural welding by workers who produced no welder's license, new beams and walls not shown on the approved plans, no special-inspection records for the installed steel connections, and workers above 25 feet with no guardrails and no protective equipment.

Undersized beams and unlicensed welds are not paperwork problems — they are the building's actual capacity to stand. When a special inspection catches steel lighter than the drawings and the response is to skip the hearing, the default is the system working as designed: the finding stands, the penalty holds, and the record is public. This desk reads these files so the trade knows the enforcement floor is real — and where it was tested.