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Yesterday afternoon, a window washer fell 12 stories to his death from a Greenwich Village building. The incident occurred at 40 Fifth Avenue, a 17-story apartment building near 11th Street. A witness said, "Around 4:30 p.m., I hear the people screaming, screaming and screaming call the police." The NY Times reports that the victim was a "well-liked," "self-employed contractor who had been washing windows and doing other work at the building for 20 years." While the incident is being investigated, the man was wearing a harness. Earlier in the day, two window washers were rescued after their scaffolding basket stalled around the 30th floor of a Times Square skyscraper.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and state Department of Labor were at the World Financial Center yesterday, investigating yesterday's accident where two window washers were killed when a cherry picker toppled. While it is believed the device toppled due to a dip in the ground, another worker told the Post fluid was leaking from it last week and then it was fixed. The men, cousins who were longtime window washers, were working for Total Buildings Service, which told a Daily News reporter who called for comment, "There's really no story here."