Las Vegas Sun

May 4, 2024

Las Vegas window washer falls from New York building

A Las Vegas man tumbled to his death early Tuesday while washing the windows of a New York building, the Associated Press reported today.

At about midnight Tuesday, two men working in a cherry picker off the World Financial Center tumbled to their deaths when the machine tipped over and fell 40 feet to the ground, police said. Police identified the Las Vegas man as 35-year-old Robert Fabrizio. The other victim was from Pennsylvania.

The AP reported that a woman who answered the telephone at Total Building Services of Elizabeth, N.J., said one was employed by Total and the other was his cousin, a retired window washer.

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