Pete Davis
Not to adhere to the federal and state drug test protocols has led to a $ 8.5 million agreement on the illicit death of a 61-year-old construction worker who was fatally hit For a dolled truck owned by concrete ti-zack in a center of St. Paul Road construction site by 2022.
County District Judge Mark Ireland wrote in a ruling on February 5 that Ti-Zack, based in Le Center, Minn., Brought the driver of the dump truck that was behind a wheel at a local hospital Do drug tests and left it there after the accident, instead of following the necessary procedures to inform the company’s medical examination officer and take the driver to a certified laboratory correctly, both of which the company has.
Peter Michael Davis, who previously worked for more than 40 years Regional Service of the Water of Sant Pau died by their injuries after being run over by loaded dump truck On September 28, 2022, as it supported a municipal road project in the center of Sant Pau.
Davis, who declared himself dead at the scene, worked for the heavy civil contractor SPG Construction, who was not named accused in the lawsuit.
The truck was driven by Dawson Barber, 23, a ti-zack employee, who does business at Midwest, Central and Mid-Sud. Barber tried alleged positive for both cocaine and THC (Marijuana) after a urine draw at the hospital.
Jeffrey S. Sieben, a Siebencey Personal Injury Act lawyer, representing Davis’s widow, Kristi Davis, says the demand revealed several failures by the defendant.
“These included drug use by the truck driver, the destruction of evidence and negligence in drug tests and other security protocols,” Sieben said in a statement.
On the day of the incident, Christopher Hartwig, President and Security Director of Ti-Zack and the representative designated by the project employee, did not consult with the medical examination officer of the site or brought Barber to a laboratory. Proper certificate, although it had the time and ability to do it.
Instead, he took him to the regions hospital, where Barber told Hartwig that he would fail a drug test, and then Hartwig left Barber.
“Mr. Hartwig had a long time to take the defendant Barber to a designated drug testing facility, but instead chose to leave,” the court found.
“It was a failure to follow the rules that created a coverage situation,” says Siebel.
The plaintiff claimed that other security offenses, including the non -forming driver, who did not make employment checks previous to the driver, inappropriately installing a backup alarm that operated on a Sound level of less than 70% of the manufacturer’s specifications of their mobile phone during the incident.
The plaintiff claims that the truck shifted the other way around 5.6 seconds before hitting Davis and traveled between 67 and 69 feet before stopping. Davis was aware of the truck for approximately 1.5 seconds before being hit by him.
As part of the Ti-Zack settlement, he agreed to hire a new security director and show the video of the incident to all new drivers as part of his training process on board and training.
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