OAP window cleaner dies after plunge

Published on Saturday 4 February 2012 06:00

A WINDOW cleaner who had been in the business for more than 40 years has died after falling from his ladder.

Keith Harrison, 72, was cleaning windows when he fell and banged his head. He was rushed to Sheffield’s Royal Hallamshire Hospital but died three days later, following a stroke.

Eunice Clifton, 67, his close friend and neighbour in Ardsley, Barnsley, said: “He was jolly, kind and just a lovely man. People are in absolute shock.

“He loved being a window cleaner, I think it was the social aspect of it. He just couldn’t retire because he liked it so much.

“The day he had the accident he had been mending my fencing. He had got to the last panel and was coming back in the afternoon but never got the chance.”

Mr Harrison, who had lived on the same street since he was a boy, was a former miner who worked in Barnsley Council’s refuse department and started an afternoon window cleaning round.

He cleaned windows all over Barnsley and was working at a house in Darfield when the accident happened last week.

A funeral will he held on Monday at Ardsley Crematorium.

Source: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/at-a-glance/main-section/oap_window_cleaner_dies_after_plunge_1_4212506

Giant fall but she's fearless

The teenager who miraculously survived a 30m fall on to concrete can't wait to get back into abseiling.

For the first time, 18-year-old Louisa Kuypers, a window washer, has spoken about what happened last Friday afternoon, after she launched herself off the roof of an office building in Auckland's Newmarket.

"The rope was meant to stretch then tighten up, but I could feel it had gone further.

"I don't remember the fall exactly, but apparently people in the office heard me scream."

Unconscious, Kuypers was rushed to Auckland City Hospital's intensive care unit. She had five dislocated ribs, a hairline fracture in her eye socket and broken bones in her neck, ankle, shoulder and collarbone.

"There's a pretty small chance of surviving a fall from that height," Kuypers said from her hospital bed yesterday.

The roof did not have "eye bolts" where the abseiling ropes would usually be attached, she said. "The guy I was working with isn't coping too well. There's no blame, but he blames himself."

It was the second miraculous escape from abseiling in three months.

Mikaela Blayney, 20, fell from the Event Cinema building in Aotea Square in December during an acrobatic performance.

But both Blayney and Kuypers said they planned to get back into abseiling.

"We're always outside, always abseiling. I want to get back to work," Kuypers said.

Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10786529

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A worker is hoisted to the roof of a downtown Regina tower after being stranded for several hours. (CBC)A worker is hoisted to the roof of a downtown Regina tower after being stranded for several hours. (CBC)

Two Regina maintenance workers who were stuck on a scaffold 19 storeys above ground are safe and sound after a dramatic rescue Friday morning.

The rescue started shortly after 10 a.m. CST outside the west tower of the twin towers on the Scarth Street mall downtown.

However, office workers on the 19th floor said the men had been there since about 8 a.m.

"We were wondering why they were just sitting out there," Cindy Howden said. "We thought they were on a break or something. They didn't knock on the window to let us know."


A rescuer from the Regina fire department, seen on the left, attaches a line to a stranded worker so he can be hoisted to the roof. A rescuer from the Regina fire department, seen on the left, attaches a line to a stranded worker so he can be hoisted to the roof.

It wasn't immediately clear what had caused the problem, but it appeared to be a stuck cable.

The contract workers had been hauling air conditioning equipment to the roof on the 22-storey building, which is one of the tallest in Saskatchewan.

The temperature was around zero Celsius, but it could have been worse — earlier in the week the mercury was down to around -35C.

Around the downtown, groups of people looked up at the drama unfolding above them.

A CBC reporter on the 19th floor could see the men through a window and they appeared calm. When the reporter asked what the problem was, they pointed to a cable box.

A firefighter attached to a line was able to drop down and pull them to the roof, one at a time.

"They lowered me down, I just hooked into him and the guys brought him up," said Greg Treleaven, who's with the fire department's rescue team.

By 11 a.m., both men were back on solid ground. No one was injured.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2011/02/04/sk-tower-workers-rescue-1101.html?ref=rss#ixzz1DINPUWJU

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