An on-the-job fatality that occurred at a Chicago workplace early in the morning on April 5, 2016 was preventable, according to OSHA.
The incident occurred during demolition work on a freeway overpass. A 47-year-old worker was standing in an aerial lift and torch cutting steel bracing between the two beams when one of the beams fell, crushing him and injuring three other workers. Federal investigators determined that the 40-ton beam had been overstressed.