The fall shattered his right arm, broke every rib that he had, punctured his lung, and he drifted in and out of consciousness as he drifted down the East River, under the Brooklyn Bridge and out into the pathway of the Staten Island Ferry, where passengers on the ferry heard his cries of pain, contacted the boat's captain who contacted the Coast Guard who fished him out of the East River and took him to Bellevue Hospital.
La caiguda li va destrossar el braç dret, li va trencar totes les costelles, li va perforar un pulmó, i perdia i recuperava la consciència mentre anava a la deriva per l'East River, sota el pont de Brooklyn, fins que va sortir a la via del transbordador de Staten Island, on els passatgers en escoltar els seus crits de dolor, van contactar el capità del vaixell, que va trucar la guàrdia costera, que el va pescar de l'East River i el va dur a l'Hospital de Bellevue.