Window Cleaners Escape Death in Freak Accident

One of the workers being treated following the fall.

Window cleaners escape death in freak accident: (KUALA LUMPUR): Two Bangladeshi workers were injured after the suspended platform they were on plunged to the ground near a bank on Jalan Ampang. City Fire and Rescue Department chief operations officer Samsol Maarif Saibani said the incident occurred at approximately 12.30pm Wednesday, but that a distress call was only received an hour later from a passer-by.

"We dispatched firemen from the Keramat fire and rescue department to the scene. "By the time we arrived, the two Bangladeshi workers had already been sent to the hospital by an ambulance," he added. Samsol said that the platform was typically used for window washing purposes. The height from which it fell was not revealed. City Fire and Rescue Department director Khiruddin Drahman said the impact of the fall was minimal and it was being investigated by the Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH).

Firefighters help stranded window washer in Mt. Lebanon: Mt. Lebanon police and firefighters helped rescue a window washer who found himself stuck outside a 10-story office building on Washington Road Wednesday afternoon.

A maintenance worker at 650 Washington Road — informally known as the Cyclops Building for its former tenant, Cyclops Steel — called police just before 4 p.m. to report that a window washer was stuck on the outside of the building about three floors up, said Deputy Chief Chris Buttlar of the Mt. Lebanon Fire Department. The window washer apparently had a miscommunication with an assistant, who was supposed to let him back into the building but left.

The window washer managed to lower himself into the light well of the adjacent building — an open space within 654 Washington Road designed to let light and air into its upper floors — where firefighters could lower a ladder for him to climb out, Buttlar said.

Window Washer NJ Rescue

Window washers were stranded 60 feet in the air Monday while working on a building in Paramus.

Parsippany Window Washer Rescued After Getting Stuck 5 Stories Up: Window washers were stranded 60 feet in the air Monday while working on a building in Paramus. Paramus police, fire and rescue responded to and successfully rescued a pair of window washers who were stuck on their scaffolding more than 60 feet above the parking lot of the Mack Cali III building on East Ridgewood Avenue Monday. The scaffold began to tilt, broke a fifth story window and locked in place. The window washing rig has a safety mechanism that automatically locks when the scaffold begins to tilt.

The two window washers, a 45-year-old Parsippany man and a 36-year-old Union City man, were trapped five stories up. “Fire Department Chief Craig Hopkins established command and sent fire fighters to the fifth floor where the scaffold had broken a window in an office and Paramus Rescue Chief Joseph Hamlin established Operations on the roof level,” explained Paramus Rescue Squad Captain John Pecoraro. Paramus Rescue members immediately set up an anchor on the roof and secured the two workers with safety lines in the event the scaffold was compromised. A tower ladder from Oradell FD was raised and the bucket placed next two the scaffold. The two workers were successfully rescued and no one was hurt.