Sartell man, 38, killed in Waite Park construction accident
WAITE PARK, Minn. — Police in central Minnesota say a man died after part of a crane fell on him Tuesday morning at a construction site.
The Waite Park Police Department says the incident happened on the 400 block of Seventh Avenue North shortly before 11 a.m.
A large section of a crane was being assembled when it fell from an elevated workstation, pinning a man underneath it, police say. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Midwest Medical Examiner's Office identified the man as 38-year-old Dylan Barthel, of Sartell, and said his cause of death had been multiple blunt force injuries.
