ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. -- Authorities have identified the window washer who plunged eight stories to his death on Friday afternoon in St. Louis Park. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner says 25-year-old Ryan Shannon of Roseville died of multiple blunt force injuries after falling from the roof of the Knollwood Place Apartments. His death has been classified as an accident. OSHA has been called in to investigate the accident.
Name of window washer killed in fall is released: ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (AP) - Authorities have released the name of a window washer who died after falling from the roof of an eight-story apartment building in St. Louis Park. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office says Sunday that 25-year-old Ryan John Shannon of Roseville died Friday afternoon of multiple blunt force injuries. St. Louis Park spokesman Jamie Zwilling said last week Shannon was part of a window washing crew when he fell from the Knollwood Place Apartments, a 151-unit independent senior living building. St. Louis Park police and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating.
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Repairmen fall from IMF building: Two window repairmen fell from the International Monetary Fund building in Foggy Bottom on Saturday, but were saved by their safety harnesses. The two adult men fell when the platform they were standing on came loose and they lost their footing at about 11 a.m., according to Pete Piringer, spokesman for D.C. fire and emergency services. They were wearing safety harnesses and came to an "abrupt stop," avoiding injury, Piringer said. The men were working outside the fourth floor of the 11-story building.
Two window repairmen were saved by the safety harnesses after their platform broke while working downtown this morning. Pete Piringer, spokesman for DC Fire and EMS, says units were called to the IMF building in the 1900 block of Pennsylvania Avenue at 11:00 for a technical rescue of two window washers who had fallen. When fire and technical rescue units arrived on scene they found the men had fallen a distance when the anchoring device on their platform came loose. The workers were saved by their safety harnesses, which brought their plunge to an abrupt stop. Piringer says the two men were taken to the hospital for evaluation. They both appear to be unharmed. The men were working on the fourth floor level of the eleven story building when the accident occurred. Crews evacuated a Founding Farmers Restaurant as a precaution while technical crews worked to secure the dangling platform.
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