I’ve blogged before about the dangers of windows in high rise apartments for children and how we all need to make apartments safer. But, the risks also extend to adults as this recent New York tragedy reveals.
Last week, a wall street executive died after falling from a fifth storey window on East 74th Street in NYC. Keith Mastronardi, 31, fell to his death while trying to open the bedroom window. After spending the day in Central Park with his wife and 3 children he was enjoying a few martinis, turned to open window to let out some smoke, lost his balance and fell out of the waist-high window.
It’s reported his wife “heard a thud, the bang, and went to look out the windows and saw him there."
The apartment was not fitted with window guards, a requirement for NYC apartments with children under the age of 10.
The same risks exist in many apartment buildings around the world and it’s important we pay attention to this risk and make sure our strata buildings don’t kill.
See you hanging on tight when near open windows.
Francesco …
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