Body of hardhat recovered

The remains of a doomed hardhat who fell under an avalanche of debris were recovered from a Brooklyn construction site, officials said Thursday.

With firefighters, medics and police lending assistance, an excavation company hired by the city to mine the covered-up trench found the body of 47-year-old Luis Almonte at about 6 p.m., officials said.

An autopsy has been slated to determine how he died.

A portion of a wall roughly 30 feet high and about 20 feet across buckled and collapsed on top of Almonte, a resident of the Bronx, as he worked in a trench at the 39th St. construction site in Sunset Park at about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.

A handful of workers were also in the trench, but made it out alive, officials said.

Scores of first responders arrived in an attempt to dig Almonte out. A heavy downpour made recovery efforts all the more hazardous, officials said.

A Department of Buildings spokesman said it had not received any complaints about the project before the collapse. An investigation into the cause is slated.

A crew was planning to turn the existing single-story manufacturing building into a four-story building that would include a health facility.