A Polish-born construction worker was fighting for his life yesterday after getting a shock from an illegally installed light at an Upper West Side apartment building and going into cardiac arrest.
Cops are investigating but no one has yet been charged.
The building’s super and an elderly tenant were brought to the 20th Precinct station house for questioning Friday night.
The tenant allegedly attached the light to scaffolding on the building.
Construction worker Slawomir Dytrych, 34, was doing brickwork on the facade of 150 W. 74th St. when he climbed up on a metal fence at 4:20 p.m. to remove the light.
He was zapped when he touched a metal pole supporting the scaffolding while trying to unplug the rain-soaked makeshift light, police said.
Witnesses said a fellow worker knocked him away from the pole with a garbage can.
Dytrych fell to the ground and went into cardiac arrest. A woman walking her dog performed CPR on him until emergency workers arrived.
Dytrych was taken to Roosevelt Hospital where he was in the intensive-care unit struggling to survive. Doctors put him in a coma to give his body a better chance to recover.
The city’s Department of Buildings issued a violation to the building’s management for illegally installing lights without a permit.