OSHA is investigating the death last week of an Illinois construction worker who died after being struck by a 70-pound falling beam at a worksite.
Michael Kerr, 57, was working on the construction site on Northwestern University’s Evanston campus on May 17 when a 16-foot-long beam on the sixth floor of a building was knocked off by a construction crane, according to a news release from police. The beam hit Kerr in the head and chest. He sustained multiple injuries and died at the hospital.