Window Washer Injured In Niagara Falls

A contract worker injured at the Hilton Hotel in Niagara Falls was airlifted by Ornge ambulance. Emergency services personnel attended the roof top of the North Tower on the approximate 53rd floor, where the male was located with serious injuries. The man had become entangled in the platform rigging and lost his balance. He was pulled up to the north tower roof of the hotel and taken by an Air Ambulance to a hospital in Hamilton.

Window washer seriously injured at Niagara Falls hotel (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada) - A 26 year old window washer was airlifted to hospital in critical condition after becoming entangled in the rigging of the platform he was on 53 storeys high. Shortly before 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, emergency crews responded to a 911 call of a man dangling from a window washer-type platform at the Fallsview Blvd. hotel. "When we arrived the man was on the roof of the hotel," said Staff Sgt. Bill Harris of the Niagara Regional Police, adding the man had suffered serious injuries when emergency crews arrived.

An initial investigation suggests the man, who was a sub-contractor working on the property, became entangled in the rigging of the platform and was pulled up to the roof. An air ambulance took the man, who has not been identified, to a Hamilton hospital. The incident is under investigation by the Ministry of Labour.

Window washer injured at Niagara Falls hotel: Emergency services were called to the Niagara Falls Fallsview Hilton Tuesday morning for reports of a man dangling from a window washing platform. The man was taken by air ambulance to Hamilton hospital for treatment of serious injuries. A 26-year-old man working at the Niagara Falls Fallsview Hilton was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after an incident at the 54-storey hotel Tuesday morning. Just before 11:30 a.m., emergency services were called to the hotel at 6361 Fallsview Blvd. for reports of a subcontractor dangling from a window washing platform. The contractor is an employee of Koala Construction.

Ministry of Labour spokesperson William Lin said the man fell from the 53rd floor, but his fall was arrested. By the time Niagara Falls firefighters arrived at the scene, the man's co-workers had pulled him back onto the roof and had begun administering first aid. He was later treated by paramedics. An Ornge air ambulance was called in and picked him up from the Imax theatre parking lot to take him to Hamilton General Hospital for serious injuries. The scene was held for the Niagara Regional Police forensic services unit and the Ministry of Labour. Niagara Parks Police also assisted by controlling the hectic scene from the road.

A contract worker injured at the Hilton Hotel in Niagara Falls was airlifted by Ornge ambulance.

Wagtail Winner + More Window Cleaning News

Ed Turner (pictured) is the winner of this months Whirlwind Wagtail giveaway! Ed is not only into window cleaning but restoring floors as well. He will find the Wagtail Whirlwind particularly useful for floors when he combines the Whirlwind with the wagtail angle adapter. Ed works in the Durham/Clarington region of Ontario, Canada & uses eco friendly products. His website Turner Clean Services is due for a revamp - so Ed reckons. Your Wagtail 14" & 18" are winging your way out to you tomorrow Ed!

Plea for help: Chris Morris of "Reflection Window Cleaning" is calling out for donations no matter how small for his partner participating in a 10 mile midnight walk in aid of a local hospice that his step daughter Danielle goes too. The Chestnut Tree House serves when a child develops a life-limiting illness. Not just for the child but for their loved ones as well. The aim at Chestnut Tree House is to provide the care and support these families so desperately need, whether practical, physical or emotional. If you can help - any amount will do - please consider in helping a fellow window cleaner out. As an incentive a free 14" & 18" Wagtail Whirlwind will be given away in a lottery for donators. Please donate here:
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Spiderman and Superman abseil into the Evelina Hospital: The children at the Evelina Children's Hospital had a surprise this week when Spiderman and Superman dropped in to help clean the windows. The grime fighters – better known as Paul and Nick from All Clean, the window cleaning contractors for Guy's and St Thomas' – abseiled from the top of the building to clean the windows of the wards that look out onto the hospital's atrium. "It was a real treat for the children to see the superheroes at the hospital and they all ran to the windows when they saw them descending from the roof," says ward sister Shelia Campion. "We are so grateful to the guys at All Clean for being such good sports."

Southwest Florida business owners get help, financing: The program is urgently needed in light of the region's lingering high unemployment and tight credit markets, Scott said: "Anybody who wants to start a business needs capital; right now, they have to have it on their own." "Even with this program, they'll still have to put skin in the game," Scott said: "Either cash or a loan co-signer - someone who is willing and capable of repaying the loan if they don't." The American Association for Enterprise Opportunity defines microenterprise as businesses with five or fewer employees. It estimates there are more than 24 million microenterprises in the country, representing 18 percent of all private employment and about 87 percent of all businesses. Up to 100 applicants will be accepted yearly, said Elliot Rittenhouse, director of microenterprise at Goodwill. If their business plans pass muster, those who complete the microenterprise course can begin applying for the loans of no more than $30,000. Kevin Gorham of North Fort Myers aims to start a window-washing company. Until getting laid off in March 2009, he worked in construction: "I was on a 20-man crew that dropped to a five-man crew." Gorham is excited about being his own boss: "I won't have to worry about a job."


£27,000 Window: Drunken yobs escape £35,000 bill for trashing luxury hotel suite: Two men who wrecked a room at Manchester’s luxury Hilton Hotel after getting ‘disgustingly drunk’ have been spared jail – and the £35,000 repair bill. Mark Kenny, 36, and David Goggin, 30, checked out of the 4-star Deansgate hotel leaving a trail of destruction behind them. The pair had wrecked the 16th floor suite after coming back from a lads’ night out in the city centre last September. One of the building’s floor-to-ceiling windows had been broken and blood and vomit soiled the walls, bedding and carpet.
But they escaped the massive repair bill after their lawyer, Mark Ferguson, disputed how much the damage would cost the Hilton. Judge Gilbart fined them £1,000 each. They have also been ordered to pay compensation of £290 each to the hotel, which will cover the specialist cleaning bill. The Hilton says that the smashed window can only be repaired by removing all the glass from the outside and that replacing the window alone costs £27,000. But the hotel chain will have to sue Kenny and Goggin if it wants the money back. Mr Ferguson said Kenny took home no more than £55 a week, while Goggin only earned £150. Judge Gilbart asked: “Am I to take those figures seriously given that they booked a room in the Hilton, Manchester’s most expensive hotel?” Mr Ferguson said the room had been paid for in advance by Mr Kenny and his now estranged wife. Rather than let the room go to waste, Kenny invited Goggin to go on a ‘boys’ night out’, Mr Ferguson added. Mr Ferguson said his clients were ‘remorseful and regretful’.