Normal operations have resumed in Mount Sinai West Hospital in Manhattan, which were halted after a man jumped onto an oxygen tank, supplying the facility on Friday morning, rupturing it. According to police, the incident took place around 2 am at the facility present at 1000 10th Avenue.

The 31-year-old was declared dead on the sight. Police said that the deceased jumped from an unidentified height from an adjacent building present behind the hospital.

The hospital's emergency room stopped functioning due to the disruption and the incoming patients were temporarily sent to other hospitals.

A few hours later, Mount Sinai West started accepting patients. While the repairing was going on, a temporary portable oxygen supply was set up to carry out operations. A law-enforcement official said that the hospital secured the portable oxygen system from a vendor in Pennsylvania. And, repair crews have also reached on the site to fix the problem.

Authorities said that patients had to be moved from a Midtown Manhattan hospital on Friday morning after a man jumped from a close by building, hitting a pressurized line that transports oxygen to the hospital.

A person familiar with the matter said that just the hospital’s backup oxygen supply got affected and the diversion of patients was precautionary.

Amy Ficon, a spokeswoman for the Linde Group, which supplies oxygen to the hospital, said that a line from the oxygen tank of the hospital to a vaporizer got damaged. However, she mentioned that the oxygen supply to the hospital was never interrupted.

A spokesman for Mount Sinai West, Sid Dinsay said that the diversion of patients from the emergency room came to an end by 6 am. He said, “There was no adverse impact to other hospital operations or patient care; the hospital’s oxygen supply system remains fully functional”.