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| Two window cleaners survive 12-storey fall from Sydney building | |
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| Two window cleaners have fallen about 12 storeys from a high-rise building in Sydney’s CBD after a cable reportedly snapped on their platform. | |
| The men, believed to be in their 50s, were cleaning windows at a building on Pitt Street near the Bridge Street intersection when a cable snapped on their platform, according to witnesses, just after 11am on Tuesday. | The men, believed to be in their 50s, were cleaning windows at a building on Pitt Street near the Bridge Street intersection when a cable snapped on their platform, according to witnesses, just after 11am on Tuesday. |
| The men were about 12 storeys up, witnesses said. Both men landed on the building’s awning, with many pedestrians rushing to help them before paramedics arrived. | The men were about 12 storeys up, witnesses said. Both men landed on the building’s awning, with many pedestrians rushing to help them before paramedics arrived. |
| “We all looked out the window, the cable had snapped and we saw the whole scaffold with two guys plunge straight down ... we heard the thump,” Con Triantafillou, who works in a building across the road, said. | |
| One of the men was left dangling by his harness from the awning and was pulled down by bystanders, Triantafillou said. | |
| The other man was hit by the scaffold, which landed on top of him on the awning, he said. | |
| “A bunch of local pedestrians, thank God, bless their hearts, they came and helped,” Triantafillou said. | |
| The witness said both men were moving but there was a lot of blood on the scaffold. | |
| The anchors for the cage, cables still dangling down to the fallen cage @HuffPostAU pic.twitter.com/4c3JCMBQet | The anchors for the cage, cables still dangling down to the fallen cage @HuffPostAU pic.twitter.com/4c3JCMBQet |
| A witness told the Nine Network one man bounced off the awning on to a white 4WD and the other remained on the awning. | A witness told the Nine Network one man bounced off the awning on to a white 4WD and the other remained on the awning. |
| One man was taken to hospital by ambulance, while the other was stabilised by paramedics at the scene. | One man was taken to hospital by ambulance, while the other was stabilised by paramedics at the scene. |
| An ambulance spokeswoman said one man was being treated for back injuries and the other for leg injuries. | |
| Police closed Pitt Street between Alfred Street and Bridge Street. |