Window Washer Nyc Accident

The incident was reported.

Window washer nyc accident. Two window washers in canada clung for their lives to their work platform after high winds sent it swinging through the air and crashing into a skyscraper video of the incident shows. A new york city window washer has been killed after falling to his death on monday morning when the harness he was strapped into ended up breaking as he worked on the 12th floor of a manhattan. Upper west side manhattan wabc the fdny came to the rescue of a pair of construction workers stuck on the 10th floor of a building when their scaffolding gave out. Authorities say the 56 year old window washer fell from.

Around 9 10am authorities were called. The 51 year old victim was washing windows at 311 e. Two window washers have been rescued after they got stranded on a broken scaffold on the 30th floor of a high rise building in lower manhattan monday morning. A window washing gondola s cable snapped 20 stories up outside a lower manhattan skyscraper monday leaving two workers dangling in its bucket before ultimately being rescued by firefighters.

New york a study released monday by the department of labor found that every 10 seconds on average a window washer somewhere in the united states accidentally plummets to his or her death. Near second ave a 14 story residential building when a brick was knocked loose around noon by the apparatus used to secure his. Two trapped window washers dangled 68 floors above lower manhattan on a scarily tilted 1 world trade center scaffold before a heroic sky high wednesday rescue.