A manufacturing plant worker was pinned by a heavy steel coil. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n
This was an accident that no one anticipated happening, and could not have predicted, unless plant workers knew something about how the overhead crane was maintained mechanically, or that the steel coils in the warehouse were not stacked properly. <\/p>\n
The day started out as usual for Richard Licina, off to work, getting ready for a full day of moving steel coils and then calling it a day. Richard never made it home. One morning in late February, 2013, he was working a 15-ton overhead crane with the goal of moving a large steel coil to another location. The coil he wanted to move weighed 10,000 pounds. While he was lifting the first coil, a second one, weighing 5,000 pounds, slid out of position on the stack, slamming into the worker. The force of the impact crushed (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A manufacturing plant worker was pinned by a heavy steel coil. He died at the scene. This was an accident that no one anticipated happening, and could not have predicted, unless plant workers knew something about how the overhead crane…<\/span><\/p>\n