Across the street from me in the Greenway Plaza complex, a window-washers' scaffold broke. It stayed level, but was swinging around in the wind. No one was hurt, apparently, and they managed to get the guys off the scaffold by breaking one of the windows. Pretty minor, I suppose, for everyone not on the scaffold, but was causing a little buzz at my office. http://www.click2houston.com/news/21898684/detail.html [rquoter]Men Rescued From Broken Scaffold POSTED: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 UPDATED: 1:37 pm CST December 8, 2009 HOUSTON -- Several men were rescued after a window-washer's scaffold broke loose on a high-rise building in Greenway Plaza Tuesday afternoon, KPRC Local 2 reported. Rescuers were sent to Greenway Plaza on Richmond Avenue where the workers were holding on to the apparatus, which swayed in the wind but was held level with wires. Some glass on the building was shattered when one side of the scaffold broke free. The workers appeared to be about 12 stories from the ground. Emergency crews removed panes of glass so the men could enter the building. All were rescued. There's no word yet on any injuries.[/rquoter]
I see them downtown all the time (obviously). That's one job I could NEVER do. How much do those guys get paid?
http://careers.stateuniversity.com/pages/319/Window-Cleaner.html According to this, the median salary is only $18K. **** that!
Window washers were on an episode of Dirty Jobs...some of the buildings they had to wash had designs that had to have been intended to terrify the washers.
