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Probe into 1 WTC scaffold collapse
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INVESTIGATORS are looking into the collapse of a World Trade Center scaffold that left two window cleaners dangling from the United States’ tallest skyscraper, 1 World Trade Center.
The workers were trapped 68 stories above the street when a cable developed slack Wednesday.
They held on to the teetering platform for two hours and one called his wife, fearful that it might be their last chance to speak.
Firefighters used diamond cutters to saw through a window and pull the men to safety.
The dramatic rescue comes little more than a week after the building officially opened.
Window cleaners Juan Lizama and Juan Lopez were working on the south side of the lower Manhattan building when one of four cables gave way, Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. The open-topped platform tilted and swayed slightly between the 68th and 69th floors, he said.
“It suddenly went from horizontal to nearly vertical,” Nigro said.
Officials haven’t determined the cause, he added.
It was unclear whether anything about the design of the 540-meter, 104-story skyscraper complicates using window washing scaffolds.
The US$3.9 billion building rose from the ashes of the September 11, 2001 terror attack in which more than 2,700 people died.
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