Window washer still critical after 11-story San Francisco fall

Hamed Aleazi, San Francisco Chronicle

A window washer who fell 11 stories onto a car in San Franciscos Financial District remained in critical condition at a hospital on Friday, officials said.

The man, 58-year-old Pedro Perez of San Leandro, who has 15 years of experience washing windows, plunged 130 feet from a building at 400 Montgomery St. on Nov. 21.

One of his three daughters, 19-year-old Monica Perez, told KGO-TV that he fractured his pelvic area, broke his right arm and had internal bleeding, but did not suffer a major head injury.

Hes not on the breathing machine anymore. He can breathe on his own. Hes talking, she told the station this week.

Mohammad Alcozai, the man who was driving the vehicle Perez fell on, said at the time that he thought, God wanted me to be there just at the moment that poor man fell.

Pedestrians in the area helped care for Perez until he was taken to San Francisco General Hospital.

The cause of the fall is under investigation by state workplace safety regulators. The company Perez was working for, Century Window Cleaning of Concord, did not respond to a request for comment Friday.

Hamed Aleaziz is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: haleaziz@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @haleaziz

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