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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: poleman on November 27, 2010, 08:39:49 pm

Title: WFP users electrocuted
Post by: poleman on November 27, 2010, 08:39:49 pm
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/11/27/window-washers-hospitalized-after-electric-shock-on-l-i/
Title: Re: WFP users electrocuted
Post by: darren clarke on November 27, 2010, 08:43:15 pm
Hewlett Window Cleaners were preparing to wash the building's windows when a gust of wind blew into the two men holding the 40' washing pole. 58-year-old Nicholas Genovese of Staten Island was holding the pole at the top of a ladder while 64-year-old Alan Weinberg of Long Beach was holding it on the ground. The wind blew the pole into a power line causing serious injury to both men.

health and safety important to them then?
Title: Re: WFP users electrocuted
Post by: tacky on November 27, 2010, 10:08:06 pm
sounds a bit fishy to me .man on top of ladder holding pole .dont they know
 1.ladders r banned .
 2.man on top of ladder holding pole .should have come on this site n learnt how to wfp .proper .
 3 glad they ok
4. hope they not on the dole . no insurance
Title: Re: WFP users electrocuted
Post by: LWC on November 28, 2010, 12:16:05 am
Its not funny but look at the comment someones made on it, **chuckles**
Title: Re: WFP users electrocuted
Post by: mci services on November 28, 2010, 12:51:58 am
shocking
Title: Re: WFP users electrocuted
Post by: Steven Shoreditch on November 28, 2010, 08:47:13 am
What crime did they commit?  Which State were they in? Florida?
Title: Re: WFP users electrocuted
Post by: G Griffin on November 28, 2010, 11:33:27 am
sounds a bit fishy to me .man on top of ladder holding pole .dont they know
 1.ladders r banned .
 2.man on top of ladder holding pole .should have come on this site n learnt how to wfp .proper .
 3 glad they ok
4. hope they not on the dole . no insurance

That`s a good one. 
Title: Re: WFP users electrocuted
Post by: clearlyclean on November 28, 2010, 01:52:02 pm
does it say any thing about water fed pole just says 40 ft pole off a ladder that is SHOCKING :o :o :o :o :o
Title: Re: WFP users electrocuted
Post by: AuRavelling79 on November 28, 2010, 03:19:12 pm
Also I believe that many more power cables in the US are allowed to be unprotected than in the UK. As in unsheathed cables.
Title: Re: WFP users electrocuted
Post by: mark mann on November 28, 2010, 03:29:51 pm
wfp - watchout - feckin - pole
Title: Re: WFP users electrocuted
Post by: poleman on November 29, 2010, 06:32:29 pm
http://www.liherald.com/stories/Workers-seriously-injured-by-electrical-shock-in-Lynbrook,29096?content_source=&category_id=5&search_filter=&event_mode=&event_ts_from=&list_type=&order_by=&order_sort=&content_class=&sub_type=&town_id=
Title: Re: WFP users electrocuted
Post by: clearlyclean on November 29, 2010, 06:39:19 pm
dont understand what they were trying to do why not just trad them if your going a ladder