Fourteen-Year-Old Laborer Crushed by Five-Ton Beam A 14-year-old boy, employed as a laborer, was crushed by a five-ton beam that fell on him while he was working beneath a house that had been moved onto a vacant lot several months earlier. The house was being raised on temporary supports and cross beams until the new foundation could be built. The beams, one of which was placed under the house, were being used to lift the structure. Using an accepted industry technique, the workers were lifting the beam with an airbag. The worker was kneeling on the ground beside the beam when […]