As investigators keep looking into yesterday’s window washing accident at One World Trade Center, the company that supplied the scaffolding is coming under scrutiny.
The rig collapsed yesterday afternoon after a cable developed slack.
Two workers were left dangling 68 stories above the street for about two hours.
Firefighters eventually cut through three layers of glass and pulled them through the hole in the window.
The scaffolding was supplied by the Tractel Group, which has been involved in a number of similar accidents in the city.
In June 2013, a Tractel rig collapsed at the Hearst Tower on West 57th Street.
Two workers were rescued from that scaffold.
But in December 2007, one window washer was killed and another critically hurt after a scaffold repaired by Tractel collapsed on the Upper East Side.
Tractel was later cited and find for unsafe conditions in that accident.
The two men involved in yesterday’s collapse were identified as Juan Lizama and Juan Lopez. Both were treated for mild hypothermia after their rescue.
We’ve reached out to the Tractel Group for comment and are waiting for a response.
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