Abstract: At approximately 1:00 p.m. on September 8, 1997, Employee #1 arrived at a residential home to pick up excess masonry blocks and cement. He backed his truck, which was equipped with a lifting boom and fork assembly, next to the garage opening. There was no one at the site when Employee #1 arrived. He positioned himself beneath a steel I-beam that spanned the garage opening, and began operating the boom assembly with a remote control box attached to a flexible cable. Using the truck's fork assembly, he picked up a pallet of masonry cement and set it next to a previously placed pallet of masonry blocks. While attempting to retract the forks from under the pallet, he struck the unsecured I-beam and knocked it off the block wall. The beam fell across Employee #1's lower body and knocked him backward. His head struck against the concrete deck and he suffered blunt force trauma to his skull that resulted in cerebral hemorrhaging. Employee #1 was pronounced dead at the scene.