A crew of more than 25 worked through the night to raise a 28,000-lb. platform 400 ft. in the air, ... [VIDEO] Time Lapse of Scaffold Platform Being Place for Space Needle Renovation.

I am continually perplexed by the questions that arise concerning platforms and planks. It appears that it starts with a misunderstanding of what constitutes a platform. For some, a platform is any ...

The window washers, Juan Lizama, 41, of West New York, New Jersey; and Juan Lopez, 43, of the Bronx, were working on the south side of the building when one of the platform's four cables abruptly ...

Investigators are looking into the collapse of a scaffold that left two window washers dangling from the nation’s tallest skyscraper — One World Trade Center, which opened earlier this month.