Ironworker Ok After Fall

By John Hickey
Ironworker Jason Hashman fell headfirst through the ceiling of the WVUP school nurse’s office the morning of Monday Feb. 20, broke Nurse Charlene McNulty’s desk with his head, and “tore up his ear,” according to fellow workers. But Hashman, a member of Ironworkers Local 787, was back on the job that afternoon. Fellow workers told the Chronicle: “Those ironworkers have hard heads.”

Hashman was in an awkward position welding steel support beams for WVUP’s ongoing classroom-tower stabilization project when he fell through a ceiling panel onto the desk of Student Health Nurse Charlene McNulty, who arrived at her desk only a few minutes later. McNulty herself would give no information on the incident, citing patient confidentiality. Wayne Riley, coordinator of the stabilization project for WVUP, said Hashman was taken to the hospital, was treated and released, and was back on the job by noon.