Peter Davis was killed in 2022 when a dump truck ran him over on a construction site. His widow has now been awarded $8.5 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit. The driver was found to have cocaine and THC in his system.

The family of a construction worker killed by a backing-up dump truck while at work in 2022 will receive a $8.5 million settlement. Peter Davis, 61, of Stillwater, had worked for the St. Paul Regional Water Services Department for over 40 years. He had retired from the department just before the fatal incident happened.

The lawsuit alleged that Ti-Zack Concrete didn’t adequately train the driver, developed no written backup plan, didn’t use a spotter and improperly installed a backup alarm. SiebenCarey Personal Injury Law “uncovered a history of backing accidents” that the concrete company didn’t address, the firm said in a statement.

A wrongful death lawsuit reached an $8.5 million settlement for the death of a construction worker in St. Paul dump truck accident back in 2022.

Two years after his tragic death at a work site, the family of a longtime St. Paul water services employee has won a major settlement from the construction company.

The family of a Stillwater construction worker struck and killed by a dump truck in downtown St. Paul was awarded a multimillion dollar settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that drug use and safety failures led to the man’s death.