A window washer was killed Friday afternoon after falling from the roof at the Knollwood Park Apartments in St. Louis Park.

The St. Louis Park fire and police departments arrived at the complex, in the 3600 block of Phillips Parkway, at 2:15 p.m. after 911 calls from the scene. A man working as part of a window washing crew fell at least 80 feet from the roof of the eight-story building. No one else was injured.

The victim, who worked for an independent contractor, was part of a crew of at least two people, said Jamie Zwilling, a spokesman for the city of St. Louis Park. His name has not been released.

Zwilling said the cause of the accident wasn't clear and would be investigated. Knollwood Place is a 151-unit independent-living senior building.

In September 2009, a window washer fell three stories to his death at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park. Bryan Prairie of Plymouth had taken that job for the summer while looking for work as a nurse. Six months earlier, in March, Jacob J. Jennings, 20, of Coon Rapids, fell about 30 feet to his death while working as a window washer at an office tower near Interstate 494 and Normandale Boulevard in Bloomington.

PAT PHEIFER