Two Window Cleaner Rescues

A window washer trapped on this Maiden Lane building was rushed to a New York City hospital.

Window washer taken to New York City hospital after getting stuck on high-rise: Witnesses said two cleaners were washing the south side of the building when their work platform got stuck on the 22nd floor and ended up on a slant. Firefighters were called, but the workers managed to bring the platform down on their own, witnesses said.

A pair of window-washers were left dangling 22 stories above the ground in the Financial District Tuesday after their platform got stuck and ended up on a slant, officials said. One of the cleaners was rushed to the hospital with a minor injury. The unidentified man was taken to a local hospital following the harrowing incident on the Maiden Lane building — home of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — near Nassau St. about 2:45 p.m.

Firefighters were called, but the workers managed to bring the platform down on their own, witnesses said. “No one was really hurt,” one witness said. “They were able to fix it themselves.” The extent of the worker’s injuries were not immediately known. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York bought the Maiden Lane building for $207 million in 2012, according to the real estate blog the Real Deal.

Two window cleaners working at a supermarket in Medway had to be rescued by firefighters after their cherrypicker work platform got stuck in the air.

Window cleaners rescued by firefighters after hydraulic fault at Morrison's supermarket in Strood: Two window cleaners working at a supermarket in Medway had to be rescued by firefighters after their cherrypicker work platform got stuck in the air. The pair were working late at night at the Morrison’s store in Knight Road, Strood, cleaning the outside glass canopy when their elevated work platform suffered a hydraulic fault.

A crew from Strood were called out to help the pair get down from the machine’s basket at about 10.10pm last night after being stuck in the air for about 20 minutes. A spokesman for Kent Fire and Rescue Service, said: “The two guys had been cleaning the glass canopy at the store and the cherry picker suffered a hydraulic failure. “We called in our high ladder vehicle from Maidstone to help rescue them and bring them down.”