Steel Beam Crushes Whitley Worker to Death

A worker at Whitley County’s Steel Dynamics plant died yesterday when a three-ton steel beam fell on him. James Hall of Fort Wayne was 41 years old. Company officials say he was guiding another worker, who was using a fork truck to move beams to a rail car when one or more of them fell. Steel Dynamics says Hall had worked in the company’s shipping department for nearly four years. The company says he’s the first person to die of a work-related injury at a Steel Dynamics plant. State officials are investigating the accident.