Two firefighters were injured yesterday after a piece of construction equipment fell from the Deutsche Bank building near Ground Zero, the same building where two other firefighters died during a major fire last weekend. 

Although demolition work on the vacant and contaminated building had been halted after the fatal fire, a small group of workers reamined to shore up the building, remove debris and contain toxic material.

According to The New York Times, 

the fire department officials said a construction worker entered an elevator at the work site with a pallet jack, when he “lost control of the motorized lifting tool.”

“The pallet jack crashed through the hoistway door and fell through a construction shed on the ground level,” the fire department said in a statement. “Two firefighters standing under the shed were injured when there was a partial collapse.

The accident follows a report by the Associated Press that the city fire department had not regularly inspected the vacant skyscraper and didn’t have a plan to fight a fire there. Both steps were required.

Members of the Fire Fighters union and the New York City community are mourning the deaths of Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino, the firefighters killed after becoming trapped while working a seven-alarm fire at the building Aug. 18.

Meanwhile, the primary contractor taking down the building has been dropped from the job. The John Galt Corp., which was handling the demolition, has been cited with dozens of safety violations. One citation came after a 15-foot pipe fell 35 stories through the roof of the local firehouse in May. The company was cited early this month after torch work sent burning sparks down through the building.