An ironworker foreman died in a fall from a roof under construction after he removed a safety barricade.

The victim was supervising a crew building the roof of a cold storage warehouse. The final structural beam, a bar joist, was being moved into place. It was not quite straight and the foreman wanted to hammer it. To reach the area where he needed to work, he removed part of the wire rope safety barricade then stood on the completed roof decking. To get to the beam, he put one foot out over an open, undecked area and rested it on a […]