Ramsey County Judge Mark Ireland signed off on the settlement Wednesday, granting the family of 61-year-old Peter Michael Davis $8.5 million for his wrongful death. Davis died on Sept. 28, 2022 after a truck driven by Dawson Barber of Ti-Zack Concrete backed into Davis, crushing him.

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.

After a 61-year-old worker was fatally struck by a dump truck operator at a construction site in downtown St. Paul, a law firm found the operator was under the influence of drugs and safety protocols had not been followed,

An $8.5 million settlement was reached in the wrongful death case of a construction worker who died after he was hit by a dump truck while at a downtown St. Paul construction site in 2022. Peter Michael Davis died at age 61 at a work site near the Minnesota Children's Museum.

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.