Two die in boom tip-over at NYC building

Two men died after the boom lift they were operating roughly 40 feet in the air tipped over shortly before 1 a.m. Tuesday, August. 5. The men were working at the World Financial Center in New York City and fell to the pavement after the lift toppled. They were pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. The men were identified by police as Robert Fabrizio, 35, of Las Vegas, NV and Garin Fabrizio, 37, of Milford, PA.

The accident comes within a year of two men falling from a Manhattan skyscraper after scaffolding broke beneath them, and a year in which NYC has been peppered with construction-related fatalities.