Worker Falls at 1720 Sheepshead Bay Rd: $5K Fine, 3-Story Demo
The Class 1 violation says the general contractor failed to notify the city of the accident; the demolition is filed by Rybak Development Corp.
The city fined Volk Industrial Services $5,000 on Oct. 5 after a worker fell from a third-floor scaffold at a demolition site at 1720 Sheepshead Bay Road in Brooklyn, according to Department of Buildings (ECB) violation 39560166Z.
Why it matters
The violation says inspectors responded to the incident at about 7:30 a.m. at an interior demolition jobsite and that the worker sustained a back injury. The text available in city data cuts off mid-sentence after stating that the general contractor failed to act. The cited code section, BC 3301.8, is failure to immediately notify the Department of an accident at construction.
So the fine is for the reporting failure, not for the fall itself. The record does not say whether a stop-work order followed, and DOB violation data for the building shows none; a complaint was entered for the address on Oct. 5 and is marked closed.
The numbers
The violation is Class 1, the most serious ECB class, with $5,000 imposed, nothing paid and a hearing set for Dec. 9 at 8:30 a.m. The respondent is Volk Industrial Services, with a Ridgewood, N.J., address.
The building is a 1927, three-story, 37,363-square-foot structure on a 24,214-square-foot lot zoned R4, per city tax records, with no residential units. The demolition filing names Rybak Development Corp as owner, covers floors 1 through 3, and carries an initial cost of $450,000. A scaffold filing for the job was permitted to Skyline Scaffolding Group in September.
Tax records list a different owner, Cesco Management LLC, and we could not reconcile the two names. Our ACRIS search by lot returned no recorded documents in range, so we cannot say when either entity acquired the property or for how much. DOB NOW shows no new-building filing for the lot, so what replaces the building is not on record.
What’s next
Watch the Dec. 9 hearing and whether DOB cites the demolition permit holder or issues a stop-work order. A new-building filing under the Rybak name would show what is planned. For the broader picture, see the New York market page.
On the record
What we checked ourselves, and where you can check it too.
- Public recordECB violation 39560166Z, issued Oct. 5, 2026 to Volk Industrial Services of Ridgewood, N.J., describes a worker who fell from a scaffold at the third-floor level of an interior demolition jobsite at about 7:30 a.m. and sustained a back injury. The cited code section is BC 3301.8, failure to immediately notify the Department of an accident at construction. Class 1, $5,000 imposed, $0 paid, hearing Dec. 9, status pending.View the record on a810-bisweb.nyc.gov
- Public recordDOB NOW full-demolition job B01359224 at 1720 Sheepshead Bay Road lists owner Rybak Development Corp, covers floors 1 through 3 of a 3-story, 37,363 sq ft building with no dwelling units, and has an initial cost of $450,000. Its filing is dated April 28, 2026 and its status is Approved. A related scaffold filing (B01359224-S3, Sept. 15, 2026) was permitted to Skyline Scaffolding Group.View the record on data.cityofnewyork.us
- Our dataPLUTO lists the lot (block 8770, lot 13) at 24,214 sq ft with a 1927 building of 37,363 sq ft, 3 stories, class K2, and zero residential units. The tax-record owner is Cesco Management LLC, which differs from the Rybak Development Corp named on the demolition filings.View the record on zola.planning.nyc.gov
Sources
- NYC Open Data, DOB ECB violations, 39560166ZClass 1, issued Oct. 5, 2026, respondent Volk Industrial Services, penalty $5,000, hearing Dec. 9, status pending
- NYC Open Data, DOB NOW build job filings, B01359224-I1Full demolition of a 3-story, 37,363 sq ft building, owner Rybak Development Corp, initial cost $450,000
- NYC Open Data, PLUTO (64uk-42ks), Brooklyn block 8770 lot 13Sheepshead Bay Road, R4 zoning, 24,214 sq ft lot, tax-record owner Cesco Management LLC