The city Buildings Department is turning a blind eye to safety by allowing unlicensed or unqualified laborers to perform gas piping work in new or reconstructed developments.
The Manhattan Supreme Court suit accuses the DOB of failing to comply with a city law that tightened up licensing requirements for gas piping installation.
DOB approved at least 460 gas authorizations from Nov. 19 to Nov. 30 last year that did not contain any supporting documentation the work was performed by qualified vendors, according to the suit. The union similarly identified unlawful gas approvals for two other alleged violators for the same period — 44 for Demar Mechanical and 24 for TT Mechanical over the past four months, according to the suit.
The union also accused DOB of approving “illegal gas work” on two taxpayer-funded public projects, Chestnut Common at 110 Dinsmore Place in Cypress Hills/East New York and Rockaway Village Apartments at 1725 Village Lane in Far Rockaway, by allowing welders do the jobs who “do not possess gas qualifications,” the suit states. The work at both sites was performed by Demar Mechanical Inc.
“Given the damage caused by these gas explosions, the magnitude of the catastrophe that would result from a gas explosion in a 45-story tower in Manhattan, on a densely populated block, is incalculable,” the suit states.
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