Now he is notifying New York City and the MTA that he will sue for $55 million, claiming the subway project is an unsafe workplace.
Ashanti Stupart says all he can remember is the pain, pulsing through his shattered left leg.
He came to in the stretcher as he was lifted to safety from ten stories beneath the street.
"When I woke, I had no control of my body, I was covered in concrete and had blood oozing from back of my head," said Stupart. "I remember being strapped down, just looking up and seeing daylight. There's people looking down on me and that's all I can remember."
Stupart was one of hundreds of construction workers building the 2nd Avenue subway, one of the largest public works projects in the city's history.
He says he and another worker were pouring concrete with a huge, flexible hose.
"This was a flex hose, so it was able to swing like this and it was going out of control," Stupart said.
He says the hose struck him hard, and opened a huge gash across his leg.
Most of the injury photos are too graphic to show. Now he and his lawyer have filed a $55 million lawsuit against the MTA.
"We've had informal meetings with OSHA and discussions with OSHA, who said one of the issues they're looking at in terms of issuing violations is the issue of attaching a flex hose to this pipe which poured concrete into the site. That should not have been done," said the worker's attorney, Sanford Rubenstein.
"MTA Capital Construction," said a spokesman, "always strives to maintain the safest possible working environments for employees, contractors and the public at large while building complicated projects in challenging conditions."
The accident happened on Aug. 20th. The project has reportedly been hit with at least 18 safety violations in recent years.
A spokesman for OSHA did not return our phone calls late Wednesday afternoon.