Work halted on site of fatal glass smash

CITY OFFICIALS ordered construction stopped on a Midtown mega-skyscraper where a security guard was crushed to death when a glass plate fell on him.

Harry Ramnauth, 67, died Saturday when an 8-foot by 14-foot plate weighing several thousand pounds fell on top of him at 217 W. 57th St.

The glass plate was being stored in a ground-level loading bay where Ramnauth was working.

A second man was injured when he tried to rescue Ramnauth, a Queens resident who worked for Eddington Security.

The city Department of Buildings said it halted all work on the 1,550-foot tower that will house a Nordstrom store and luxury condos.

Extell and Lend Lease, which oversee the project, said that they are cooperating with probers.