Window Washer Survives 8-Story Fall From Seattle Building

A window washer has survived an eight-story fall from a building on Second Avenue and Pine Street in downtown Seattle, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

KIRO 7 reporter Essex Porter said two workers were on top of the building that houses Nordstrom Rack when the accident happened Thursday at 11:20 a.m.

One worker fell from the top of the building, hit and cracked a seventh-floor window and then fell to the second floor where his safety rope caught and slowed the remainder of his fall to the ground.

The Seattle Fire Department said the 34-year-old man was transported to Harborview Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.

A Harborview spokesman said the man suffered only a broken right pinkie finger.

The second window washer was not hurt.

The incident happened on the back side of the building that faces an alley.