WAUSAU (WAOW) – A 38-year-old worker killed at a steel factory was unhooking a girder from an overhead crane when the girder fell and toppled, striking him, a spokesman for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday.
The accident happened about 4 p.m. Sunday at Veritas Steel as the man worked in the paint department at the factory, said Scott Allen, an OSHA spokesman in Chicago.
OSHA opened an investigation and expects to take about six months to determine exactly what happened and why, Allen said.
The worker’s name was not released Tuesday.
Veritas CEO Henrik Jensen said Monday the worker was killed in a “tragic accident” but he did not elaborate.
“We will provide more information once the review by authorities and our internal review are completed,” he said in a statement.
