ST. PAUL, Minn. (KFGO/WCCO) – We are learning more about an $8.5 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed after a construction worker was hit by a dump truck in downtown St. Paul.
On Wednesday, lawyers reached a settlement with the concrete company that employed the truck’s operator, court documents show, with Kristi Davis, the widow of a man killed in 2022.
Davis remembers what it was like the day she learned her husband of 35 years was hit by a truck on a construction site.
“I was in shock because my husband, 40-plus years of working in the construction industry, came home safe to me every day,” says Davis. “So he was very experienced. Shocked is really the only way that I can describe it.”
Peter Davis was working at a construction site on Wabasha Street in St Paul when he was hit by the truck.
“He suffered a very traumatic death. The dump truck ran over him with both axles and he was at, you know, from the back to the front,” Davis describes. “So he was crushed to death.”
Davis filed a wrongful death lawsuit after finding the driver had both cocaine and THC in his system, and the company had a history of poor training and claims of inadequate equipment. The 23-year-old operator of a loaded dump truck, owned by another company, Ti-Zack Concrete Inc., was backing up at a construction site on Wabasha Street just south of East Seventh Street when it backed over Peter Davis while he was working for a contracting company.
“The defendant has agreed to hire a safety director and implement new higher safety in particular for the drivers,” Davis explains. “I still have my husband’s colleagues and friends that are out in the field working with this company. And I needed to do what I could to ensure that this traumatic event does not happen to anyone else in the future.”
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