Sanchez asks how DOB classifies union vs non-union sites

DOB's construction incident reporting classifies sites as union or non-union.

Many sites, however, employ both union and non-union workers through different contractors and subcontractors, such as in the Pfizer partial collapse.

What criteria does DOB use to classify a site as union or non-union?

Is the classification...

based on the general contractor, the share of union workers on the site, or the trade involved in the incident?

Who reports the site's union status to DOB?

Does DOB verify?

And finally, would DOB classify the former Pfizer headquarters conversion in Midtown as a union or non-union site?

So as a result of Local Law 78 of 2017, which was worked on by both the agency and administration and the council,

a number of steps were created to make sure that we were capturing details of an incident.

I mentioned earlier that...

When there is an incident, people are required to report within three business days, and through that portal or that call, it is a self-identification, self-verification.

We do not do a third-party check on that verification, but that information is also available on our website, so we make it available to the public.

And there is a column specifically asking to verify.

non-union versus union.

As far as the Pfizer building, based on what we know, we understand it was an open shop or mixed shop site with both non-union and union trades that worked on that site.

Got it.

So the only time that DOB learns whether a site is union or non-union is when there is an incident that is reported that answers the question.

That's correct.

Again, our priority is regardless of affiliation, we...

focus on the worker, the incident, the accident, and how to prevent it in the future.

Thank you.