No one ever work ed underneath Respondent’s crew while they were lifting bundles, or spreading and welding individual joists. Each steel joist weighed approximately 300-400 pounds. The “foot” on each end of a joist was a steel 5 -inch plate that was welded to the horizontal I-beam when each joist was individually set. The process involved setting bundles of steel joists up on the I-beams (“flying them up”), separating the bundles, setting individual joists in place (“shaking them out”), then welding the ends of each joist to the I-beam s (“setting them in their forever home”), progressively moving along the top s of beams to creat e a roof support structure. Once the vertical columns and horizontal I-beams of the structure were erected (which was completed by the time-frame relevant to this case), Respondent’s crew was tasked with setting and welding horizontal, steel, roof joists across the I-beams. Respondent’s structural steel erection work on the project was supposed to be completed in 4-5 days. Respondent was responsible for erecting the steel columns, beams, and joists which would serve as the frame/structure for the building.
Respondent, a small steel erection company, was one of those contractors with employees on the job. Multiple contractors were involved in the construction of a new Kum & Go gas station/convenient store in Colorado Springs, Colorado in June 2017.
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