Thanks for the confirmation! A "little" thing like this clearly can make all the difference.
Glad it helped. The paper also said that employees are trained to try to ride it down like that in case of an accident, because the board absorbs much of the impact.
It's hard to believe that anyone could live after that far of a fall. I got knocked backward 3 1/2 feet out of a trailer and fractured several bones. The next day, I literally couldn't move from the pain. I can only imagine the pain this man has gone through. It is a miracle he's alive.
The real miracle here is not the fall, but the medical knowledge, drugs, and technology available to anyone—key word anyone—experiencing a medical crisis in the U.S. Without it, this man almost certainly would have died. Just surprised no one posting here has thought to mention this.
I don’t want to throw a damper on all the high-fiving but at some point the cost of the care he received is going to have to be paid by someone. The extraordinary efforts taken to keep him alive will come with an extraordinary price tag.
Did he have private medical insurance? A lot of these window washing businesses must cover their employees with workers comp—but not much else.