Twenty-four Department of Buildings safety and code cases go before OATH/ECB hearing officers on September 11, per OATH/ECB Hearings records — a routine hearing calendar, not a single incident, but the pattern is worth a contractor's attention.

The largest penalty on the docket: Mea Construction Inc., cited at 74 MacDougal Street in Manhattan, faces $12,500 for failing to communicate required safety information to workers at an active four-story construction site, per DOB records. The same firm drew two more citations at the same address the same day — $6,250 for work not conforming to approved construction documents, and $5,000 for failing to produce a construction superintendent log book. All three cases are marked defaulted and rescheduled.

Empire Prop Partners LLC faces a $10,000 penalty at 144-46 68 Road in Queens for an unsafe supported scaffold — inspectors found planks installed over an opening with no solid foundation, per DOB records. A second violation at the same address, $3,125, cites a construction fence installed without a valid permit after the prior permit had expired.

In the Bronx, 762 Richmond Terrace LLC (Staten Island) faces $12,500 for an occupancy alleged to be contrary to its certificate of occupancy — DOB records describe a tire repair shop, Alberto's Tire, operating out of a ground-level basement space with workers and vehicles present at the time of inspection. A related $6,250 citation was issued the same day.

Watch-person and site-security violations recur across the docket: Triton Construction Co. was fined $2,500 (later paid in full) at 200 East 75 Street in Manhattan for lacking a credentialed watch person at an 18-story new-building site; Mega Contracting GP LLC faces $5,000 for the same issue at 50-25 Barnett Avenue in Sunnyside, Queens, at a roughly 60,000-square-foot site. AVC General Contracting LLC faces $5,000 at 1879 Gleason Avenue in the Bronx over an incomplete daily-log book kept by the site's competent person.

Scaffold-compliance cases round out the docket. Daniel G. Weissman was cited twice — $3,125 each — at 19 East 198 Street in the Bronx, for a suspended scaffold platform configuration that didn't match manufacturer specifications, and for missing on-site documentation and hoist inspection records. The Demar Gen'l Constr. Ltd. faces $5,000 at 482 Union Avenue in Brooklyn for a 40-foot scaffold with holes in its debris netting and a frame section left exposed outside the site fence.

Sidewalk-shed paperwork produced several defaults: BK Construction Svcs Inc. faces $6,250 at 130 Prospect Place in Brooklyn over a shed vertical member installed out of conformance with engineered plans; JAT Construction Group faces $5,000 at 350 East 18 Street in Manhattan for removing a shed without notifying DOB; and Jimco Renovation Corp faces $3,125 at 1850 2nd Avenue in Manhattan for a shed missing its required project-information panel.

Two firms — Star Companiess LLC, tied to 14-27 Broadway in Queens — face $3,125 each for failing to file certifications of correction on unrelated prior violations, per DOB records. RADB Services Inc. faces $2,500 at 5005 5th Avenue in Brooklyn over a construction fence covered in graffiti and non-construction signage. Alexandria Piszczatowski faces $5,000 at 167 Meserole Avenue in Brooklyn for a damaged fence missing required window-opening coverings. Frogiero Contracting Inc. faces $1,280 at 87-09 97th Avenue in Ozone Park, Queens, for an expired construction-fence permit.

All of these cases carry a hearing status of 'rescheduled' or 'hearing completed' with a September 11 hearing date, and hearing results recorded to date show 'defaulted' outcomes on the unresolved matters, per OATH/ECB records — a default reflects a missed appearance or response, not a finding of guilt on the underlying charge; final compliance status remains 'Penalty Due' on most of these tickets as of this writing.

None of the above involves an injury or structural failure. Separately, a Department of Buildings elevator-maintenance case against Crotona Park Redevelopment LLC at 1415 Bristow Street in the Bronx — inoperative in-car communication and emergency stop-switch — was closed with all terms met and no balance due, per DOB records.