Work has resumed at Lafayette Street site of June 2 partial building collapse in New Haven

Construction has resumed at 188 Lafayette St., the site of a June 2 partial collapse of a seven-story, 112-unit apartment building under construction. Involving more than 4 million pounds of concrete, the collapse injured eight workers, two critically. An investigation by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is continuing and no information or reports have yet been released, said Edmund Fitzgerald, a spokesman in OSHA’s Boston office. Lenny Alvarez, principal of Seven Concrete, LLC of Orange, the non-union concrete subcontractor that OSHA is investigating, declined to comment. Workers were pouring more than 4 million pounds of concrete when a building under construction on Lafayette Street collapsed Friday, injuring eight, Fontana previously said. The building is owned by RMS Companies. and is on land owned by Yale University, Mayor Justin Elicker said at the time of the collapse.

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