Area Erectors, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Jan 30, 2015 (fatal): Lift operator is killed when caught between lift's basket an

At 12:00 p.m. on January 30, 2015, Employee #1 and two crews of coworkers, employed by a steel erection company, were working at a commercial warehouse construction site. They were installing metal cross braces along open webbed steel joists. Employee #1 was operating an Illini Hi-Reach JLG Lift, a telescopic boom aerial lift and was connecting the cross braces to an affixed joist. He was trailing and setting the cross braces approximately 50 to 100 feet behind his coworkers, the erecting crew. During this operation Employee #1 appears to have leaned over the control panel of the lift, causing it to engage and pinning him between the frame of the lift basket and the base of the open webbed joists. Employee #1 was killed. Cause of death was determined to be asphyxia.

Incident on Jul 23, 2008 (fatal): Employee is struck by broken boom and dies

On July 23, 2008, Employee #1 was working with a crew to set open web bar joists for a roof system on a precast concrete building. Coworker #1 was operating a L ink-Belt LS 218H crane to hoist bar joist to the crew working from man lifts. Em ployee #1 was part of the crew working from the man lifts. Coworker #2 heard a s napping noise and saw the boom hoist wire rope breaking apart between the drum a nd the top of the Gantry. Coworker #2 yelled to Coworker #1 that the boom hoist cable broke, causing the boom to fall. The boom struck Employee #1 in the elevat ed man lift. Employee #1 collapsed, suffered blunt force trauma, and later died. The weather at the site was warm and sunny with little to no wind.

Incident on Sep 18, 1996 (fatal): Electric shock - direct contact with overhead line

An employee was reroofing a manufacturing building. He had assumed that an overh ead power line near his work area had been deenergized. He was electrocuted when he contacted the 6900-volt power line.