A carpenter building a wall form for concrete died when he fell onto a steel reinforcing dowel that was sticking straight up out of a concrete footing. He and a fellow worker were standing on a scaffold they had built about four feet above the ground. They were trying to push a plywood panel into position. The platform was slippery from rain. The victim fell into the excavation and landed on the vertical steel rod protruding from the concrete footing they had previously built. Two fellow workers jumped into the excavation and lifted him off the steel dowel. He was hauled out […]