Five construction incidents hit the Department of Buildings' books over a 48-hour span this week, and four of them put a worker in the hospital, per DOB Construction-Related Incidents records.

In Kew Gardens, Queens, DOB logged a worker fall on September 18 at 126-02 82 Avenue (BIN 4458616), zip 11415, with one injury recorded and no fatality. The agency's record type lists it as an "Incident" under the check description "Worker Fell."

The same day, DOB recorded a scaffold or shoring installation incident at 522 5th Avenue in Manhattan (BIN 1034212), zip 10036, also with one injury and no fatality.

A day earlier, on September 17, DOB logged a worker fall at 475 State Street in Brooklyn (BIN 3331754), zip 11217 — this one classified as an "Accident" rather than an "Incident," with one injury reported.

That same day, DOB recorded a separate incident at 809 1st Avenue in Manhattan (BIN 1038775), zip 10017, filed under "Other Construction Related." No injury or fatality was noted in that record.

A fifth entry, dated September 16, shows a worker fall at 50 Sparrow Way in Brooklyn (BIN 3430120), with one injury recorded. DOB's public record for this address does not currently list a zip code or additional site detail.

None of the five records show a fatality. All are open entries in DOB's incident dataset; the agency has not published findings, cause determinations, or enforcement action tied to any of them as of this writing.

Separately, DOB's complaints system logged 100 new construction-related complaints citywide over the same two-day window, spanning categories from elevator defects to illegal work and site-safety concerns — volume that gives some sense of scale but is not, on its own, evidence tied to any of the five incidents above. A complaint is an unverified allegation until DOB inspects and dispositions it.

For contractors: two of the five sites — 522 5th Avenue and 809 1st Avenue — sit within blocks of each other in Midtown Manhantan's dense high-rise corridor, and the DOB's own incident-tracking page lets any GC or safety manager pull a building's fall and scaffold history by BIN before bidding nearby work. That's a five-minute check worth doing on any job adjacent to an active incident address.

Records: DOB Construction-Related Incidents dataset (data.cityofnewyork.us, dataset bf97-mjsy), accessed September 20, 2026.