"They always tell us, we're being behind schedule, being behind schedule,"
"We're humans working all those crazy hours that we work .. The body gets tired."
"I came to this country to work,"
"I came here to work. I'm not coming here for"
A 52-year-old construction worker, Jorge Sanchez, fell roughly 50 feet while harnessed to a recently poured concrete wall at a Manhattan Gateway tunnel jobsite. Sanchez worked for New York Concrete Company on the $16.1 billion tunnel effort beneath the Hudson River. A co-worker reported repeated long overtime shifts, including a 35-hour day, and said managers pressured crews to make up schedule delays. Sanchez was harnessed alongside two other workers when he fell and the exact cause remains under investigation. The Gateway Development Commission deferred questions to Amtrak and Related Companies, and company representatives did not respond.
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