The moral of this fatality is: Never work beneath a suspended load. That was the tragic lesson learned by longshore workers who watched in horror as a colleague was crushed by a 750-pound lug while working under a suspended turbogenerator. How It Happened A barge-mounted crane was being used to transfer a turbogenerator onto a railcar. The generator was suspended in the air six to 12 inches above the railcar. Each of four lugs was secured to the generator's housing by four nut-and-bolt assemblies. Crewmembers attempted to put support timbers on the railcar beneath the edges of the generator, but the nut-and-bolt assemblies […]