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Falling causes more on-the-job fatalities than anything except transportation accidents, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of 5,703 work-related deaths in 2006, 1,329 happened on highways, 809 resulted from falls, and 583 involved workers being struck by objects.

Amazingly, Moreno's experience does not rank at the top of the list of survivals from extreme heights. Three airmen in World War II fell 20,000 to 30,000 feet and survived. A Yugoslavian flight attendant named Vesna Vulovi survived a 33,316-foot plunge when a Czech flight exploded in midair (the Guinness Book of Records recognizes her for surviving the greatest fall without a parachute). Moreno, who began talking a few days ago, joins an extraordinary club.
 
Euchner, a lecturer in English at Yale University, is completing a book about suicide at the Golden Gate Bridge.

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  • Posted By: Mississippi1 @ 04/01/2009 7:33:25 PM

    Our daughter survived a six-story fall from the roof of her apt. building in Harlem last August. We credit her survival--and recovery--with her excellent physical condition, her youth (25 years old), instinctively knowing the best way to fall due to being a dancer, and most of all, we give credit to GOD, as we believe she is a living miracle.

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