Abstract: At 8:30 a.m. on May 17, 1994, Employee #1, the signalman for a crane operator who was lifting plate steel out of an open-top barge (ID #LC-106), flagged up the last load of plate steel. He then walked around the bow and down the land side on a walkway 39 inches wide as the load of steel plate was swinging across the barge. He stopped so as not to be under the load, took several steps back, and fell off the barge to the water and riverbank 8 feet below. Employee #1's head was fatally punctured and lacerated by steel sheeting. He lay half in the water and half on the bank; the water was only 4 feet deep. The steel sheeting had been installed by the Dock Board to protect the bank edge. Employee #1 weighed approximately 375 pounds.