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‘METAL FALL’ VICTIM MAY NEVER WALK

In a hospital bed with a metal brace locked on his head, an architect severely injured at a downtown construction site said yesterday he felt badly about not having taken his 2-year-old son for a bike ride.

Robert Woo, 39, probably won’t walk again, said his wife, Lisa.

He has two sons: Tristan, 2, and Adrien, 7 months.

“Rob was looking forward to taking Tristan on the back of his bike,” Lisa Woo said. “He kept putting it off for months. Now he feels guilty about it.”

Doctors at St. Vincent’s Hospital have told the Woos that Robert likely was paralyzed in the accident Friday morning, in which seven tons of aluminum wall studs crashed down on a construction trailer.

“We have to get used to the idea that he may never walk again,” Lisa said.

Woo, who is employed by the Toronto architectural firm Adamson Associates, was temporarily living in Manhattan while working on the project, the new 45-story headquarters for Goldman Sachs at 200 Murray St. in Battery Park City.

On Friday, the city issued several violations against building contractor Tishman Construction and the crane operator, DCM Erectors Inc., that included charges of unsafe hoisting operations and failing to safeguard the public.

Additional reporting by Bill Sanderson

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