Construction worker dies in Manhattan fall

Todd Maisel/New York Daily News

A construction worker plunged 40 several stories from a scaffolding on a building under construction at 450 Broome St. in Manhattan Thursday afternoon.

A Brooklyn construction worker packing up to head home from his first day on the job was killed Thursday in a two-story fall from scaffolding on a Manhattan building family and coworkers said.

Adrian Zamora, 32, was alone on the scaffolding - not wearing a harness - on the Mercer St. side of 450 Broome St. in SoHo when he plummeted 40 feet onto a sidewalk shed around 5 p.m., colleague Emerson Bicalho said.

The workers were restoring the facade of the 11-story luxury loft apartment building.

We were cleaning up to go home, Bicalho, 35, of Newark said. He fell on his head. ... He was bleeding from the nose and mouth.

The paramedics were pumping his chest. He wasnt responding, the shaken-up coworker said.

Hes a nice guy. Hes a real joker. He was a working guy just trying to make some money to keep his family good.

An EMT source at the scene said the man suffered massive head trauma and went into cardiac arrest.

Zamora, an immigrant from Mexico who lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children, died at Bellevue Hospital, his family and police said.

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