An engineer who oversaw inspections of a Bronx apartment building that partially collapsed on Monday misdiagnosed a column that was holding up the building, calling it a decorative element in plans he filed in June, city officials said Friday.
When those who are entrusted to keep us safe cut corners and make catastrophic mistakes, we're going to take swift action and hold them accountable, Mr. Adams said in a statement. He added that the engineer had no business assessing the exterior walls of buildings in New York City. Mr. Oddo said in a statement that the engineer had failed to recognize a clearly structural column as such. We got lucky that no one was killed in this collapse, he continued. We will not take that risk again.
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