Data from The International Window Cleaning Association showed that between 2010 and 2014, only one high-rise window cleaner was killed each year.

What is the death rate of window cleaners?

There has been one high-rise fatality per year in the last four years in the U.S., according to the International Window Cleaning Association. That’s with an estimated 1.5 million “exposures” — when workers are on the sides of buildings — a year.

How often do skyscraper window cleaners die?

Fatalities in high-rise window cleaning are exceedingly rare. High-rise window cleaners as a class see 1.5 million exposures — times when they are working on the side of a building — every year. Yet only one occupational fatality has occurred in the past four years.