A terracotta stone weighing more than 300 pounds fell while suspended three feet high during installation at 129 Franklin Street in Brooklyn, striking a worker's leg and breaking his ankle, according to a Class 1 violation issued by the Department of Buildings.
DOB served the violation on November 3 against Nova Construction Service, the respondent listed at the Franklin Street address, which sits in Greenpoint (BIN 1088760). The violation carries a $10,000 penalty, with the full balance still unpaid as of this writing, per DOB's ECB violations database.
The violation description adds that DOB requested the stone installation's design drawing from the engineer and found it insufficient — the record's wording cuts off mid-sentence ('UPON REQUEST FOR THE STONE INSTALLATION DESIGN DRAWING FROM ENGINEER TO S...'), but the agency's citation ties the drawing request directly to the Class 1 designation, DOB's most serious violation tier, reserved for conditions posing immediate safety hazards.
A hearing is scheduled for January 7, 2027 at 8:30 a.m. before the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings' Environmental Control Board. The hearing status is listed as pending, and the violation remains active, per DOB records. No cause has been determined and no fault has been assigned in the record reviewed.
Nova Construction Service has not issued a public statement on the violation as of this writing.
What to do next
If you're running terracotta or heavy masonry restoration work anywhere in the city, this is the violation code to watch — infraction 1P7, DOB's catch-all for immediate-hazard conditions tied to falling material. Pull your own rigging and suspension documentation before DOB asks for it, not after. The hearing is January 7; anyone tracking this site or this contractor's record can search BIN 1088760 or ECB violation number 39561484Z directly on DOB NOW.