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.

Niagara Falls Window Cleaner In A Fix

Up he goes.

Spotted in Niagara Falls, Canada recently a window cleaner working from a suspended platform, who has his own way of fixing a jammed line. In the words of our reader – “whilst walking down the street the other day, we came across this fella whose cradle winch seem to have packed up!” “Without thinking he just scrambled up the rope and sorted the problem out, then carried on working.” “What was he thinking of!” Since putting this story up we have discovered that the window cleaner in question is actually a dummy model on the side of the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum in Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls and to the looks of things it would seem we believed it!

Robert Ripley, the franchise founder who has museums worldwide, was an exceptional flamboyant character who travelled the world collecting artefacts and writing stories about his weird and unusual findings. His museum’s are definitely for the fans of the bizarre and unbelievable with the museum in Niagara Falls designed to look like the fallen Empire State building with King Kong standing on top of it! But that's still not to say we are overly impressed with the platform he is using, no toe-boards and a floor that looks ready to give - its no wonder why he is climbing out of that death trap!

Halfway up.

Almost there.. apparently he fixed the problem and returned to the platform.

Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum in Niagara Falls.