Man Killed By Forklift At Jamaica Construction Site: NYPD

JAMAICA, QUEENS -- A 34-year-old man was killed on Tuesday after being crushed by a forklift at a Queens construction site, police said.

Edgar Pazmino, an immigrant from Ecuador living in the Bronx, and another man were using the heavy machinery to lift a window at the site in Jamaica just before 11 a.m. when the window fell and pinned Pazmino against the wall, New York Daily News reported.

Cops arrived at the site on 89th Avenue near 150th Street to find Pazmino unresponsive. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

The Chetrit Group had been turning the property into a luxury high-rise apartment building, but the project was under a stop work order after receiving several violations from the Department of Buildings in the months before Pazmino was crushed.

The DOB issued a partial stop work orders on the site last September after a worker fell from the eighth to seventh floor through a concrete-covered plywood opening that collapsed, records show.

The department allowed the project to continue in October, but had issued a full stop work order by early December after receiving complaints that the site was unsafe. On Dec. 28, work on the site was ordered to halt one last time before Pazmino was killed, according to DOB records.

Another full stop work order has since been issued at the site on Tuesday, citing an incident where "a forklift worker was killed."

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