A worker was crushed by a load of steel when it was knocked off a truck. She was assisting at the receiving end of an operation loading 50-foot steel I-beams onto a truck. Her job was to free the chain loops from the loads of beams that had been positioned on the truck by an overhead traveling crane. She had been standing on one end of two stacks of beams and was unhooking the slings and freeing the chain. While she was doing this, the crane operator was releasing tension on the loop of the chain and was sliding it off the […]