US window cleaner survives eight-storey fall
A window washer fell eight stories outside a downtown Seattle building on Thursday morning, but suffered only a broken finger and some bruising and soreness.
Eduardo L. Castillo, 34, appeared to be in good shape and was talking as he was being loaded into an ambulance shortly after the 11:20 a.m. fall, said Mike O'Donin, manager of the Broadacre Building at Second Avenue and Pine Street.
His most severe injury was a broken finger on his right hand, according to a Harborview Medical Center spokesman.
Castillo, who works for Morris Hansen Enterprises, had been at work about two hours when he fell from outside an eighth-floor window. He was caught by his rope when he reached the second-floor level, and the rope "softened" the impact of his fall into an alley between First and Second avenues. Castillo, through a hospital spokesman, declined to talk about the fall.
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