The Sept. 10 accident was on Neptune Road, Osceola County, 25 miles south of Downtown Orlando.
The beam was being pushed into place on the overpass by a 170-foot tall crane and a 140-foot tall crane. Area construction industry officials tell GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity that each of the cranes should have had a holding capacity of about 50 tons, enough to hold the concrete beam. OSHA officials couldn't be reached at GlobeSt.com's publication deadline.
The cable on the 140-foot crane snapped as the workers were guiding the beam onto the overpass, according to a filed report by the Osceola County Sheriff's Office.
The victims, Enrique Aguilar, 22 and David Knight, 32, worked for Leware Construction Co., a 30-year-old, family-owned company in Leesburg, FL, 45 miles northwest of Downtown Orlando. The fatalities were the first in the company's history.
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