Patent ID: 8312966

Claim:
A beam anchor for attaching to a flanged beam that has been made a part of a structure, to provide fall protection for a worker working on the structure, the flanged beam having at least one flange having two, opposed side edge surfaces that are substantially vertically oriented and that terminate in corresponding, substantially horizontally oriented surface portions of the flange, the beam anchor comprising: a main cross-member supporting a lanyard attachment member having a through-hole for attaching a lanyard; a pair of first and second, spaced apart beam capturing members attached to said main cross-member in such manner that the spacing between said capturing members is adjustable, said capturing members being adapted to over-hang, respectively, the surface portions, and are thereby enabled to hang said main cross-member therefrom, wherein one or both of said capturing members have associated therewith respective yaw restoring mechanisms providing a combined restoring torque for urging the cross-member in counteraction to twisting thereof by a yaw angle in a yaw plane that is substantially parallel to the surface portions, wherein said yaw restoring mechanism or mechanisms are adapted to contact portions of the corresponding side edge surfaces of the flange to apply said restoring torque, wherein said restoring torque, for yaw angles between about 10-30 degrees, is between about 1-200 inch-pounds.