A window washer who was left dangling at a 45-degree angle from a midtown high rise last summer is suing the scaffold company and the building for multiple injuries he sustained during the slip, according to a new lawsuit.
Steven Kind, 40, of Long Island, was 42 stories above the street polishing the exterior panes of 1177 Sixth Ave. on July 11 when the “scaffold suddenly failed, collapsed, fell and otherwise violently moved resulting in serious gravity-driven injuries,” he claims in court papers.
He and another washer were left dangling precariously from the platform for 30 minutes before rescue personnel cut through glass to save them.
Kind, a father and the family’s primary breadwinner, has been in and out of the hospital for pain in his neck, shoulder, back and knees, his attorney, Dario Perez, said.
“It seems these are life changing injuries,” Perez added.
The former full-time union man has been unable to work since the accident.
A 2012 Labor Department report said the incident was caused by “operator’s error by the window cleaners.”
Kind wants unspecified damages for his injuries.
A spokesman for 1177 Sixth said he had not yet seen the lawsuit. The scaffold company, Titanium Scaffold Services, did not return calls for comment.