OLYMPIA, Wash. — A crew worker dangled from a safety line Thursday morning after he fell while cleaning Olympia’s Capitol dome.
Two workers from Western Waterproofing were power-washing the dome on a platform at 7 a.m.
Something went wrong and their scaffold turned over.
“Somehow the platform came loose and flipped over and one of the workers was left hanging there for a couple of minutes while his buddy was able to pull him back up,” said Steve Valandra of the Department of Enterprise Services.
During the time of the incident, the worker who fell was wearing safety equipment to prevent him from falling to the ground. He was also not injured from the fall.
KIRO 7 Eyewitness News was told the entire building is undergoing a $1 million cleanup that is expected to last until November.
“It could have been a lot worse than it was, but fortunately they didn’t get hurt,” said Valandra.
Western Waterproofing is a contractor based in Seattle and began cleaning sandstone at the Capitol in late July.
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