A worker took a fatal three-story plunge from a scaffolding outside a Brooklyn building Sunday afternoon, authorities said.
The 58-year-old man was on a platform at the building on Nostrand Ave. near Linden Blvd. in East Flatbush at 12:45 p.m. when he fell , police said.
He suffered severe head trauma and died at Kings County Hospital, according to police. His name was not released.
“I saw his body, and he couldn’t move,” said Donald Campbell, 73, who lives next-door.
Campbell said two other workers were on the job alongside the victim.
“That was a shocker, for a man to die on Father’s Day, especially if he was a father,” Campbell said.
One man, who identified himself as the worker’s supervisor but wouldn’t give his name, said the victim slipped and fell.
“I was here working when he slipped. It was an accident,” he said.
The city Buildings Department website shows the FDNY requesting an inspection after finding a “loose scaffold” after the fall Sunday. A Buildings Department spokesman said the tragic incident remains under investigation.
With John Annese
