The following expansion on my original comment may be of some help. To recap my original point briefly, the event horizon of a black hole is a null surface, and not a place. The key difference between a place and a null surface is that you can stop at a place. But you can't stop in the same manner at a null surface - the null surface is light-like, and no matter can move at the speed of light. Thus, it is impossible to have a material object stationary at the event horizon. Any object at the event horizon will have a velocity of "c", the speed of light, relative to the horizon, because the horizon is a null surface, not a location in space.
One of the interesting, though mildly obscure, features of special relativity is that while no object can move as fast as light, it is possible for an accelerating object, given a sufficiently high acceleration, and a sufficiently large head start, to stay "ahead" of a light beam indefinitely, as long as it keeps accelerating.
This is essentially the way that an object can avoid falling into a black hole. For a sufficiently large black hole, the effects of space-time curvature can be ignored as a first approximation, and avoiding the event horizon is just like outrunning a light beam. This takes a very high acceleration - the magnitude of the acceleration required is c^2/d, c being the speed of light, and d being the distance one wants to stay ahead of the event horizon. Thus it takes an acceleration of about 9*10^16 meters/second^2 to "hover" at one meter above the event horizon of a very large black hole, which is the same acceleration it would require to stay ahead of a light beam in the flat space-time of special relativity given a 1 meter head start.
An acceleration of 10 m/s^2, in contrast, requires approximately a 1 light year head start. More exactly, given a 1 light year head start, one needs to accelerate at 9.5 meters/second^2 to stay ahead of a light beam. Equivalently, to "hover" one light year away from the event horizon of a sufficiently large black hole, one needs to accelerate at 9.5 meters/second^2, approximately 1 Earth gravity.
Note that for smaller black holes one does need to account for the additional effects of space-time curvature, but the simplest case to understand the problem is to imagine a very large black hole so that one can ignore the curvature issues.