'Someone is Going to Get Killed,' Said Fort Snelling Construction Worker Night Before Death
The construction worker killed in late October by a toppled backhoe in Fort Snelling State Park told his wife he "had a bad feeling about the job."
Follow Eagan Patch on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our daily newsletter | Blog for us The night before Jeffery Allen Tukua, a construction worker in Fort Snelling State Park, was crushed to death by a backhoe, he told his wife that he “had a bad feeling about the job” and did not want to go into work the next day. “Jeffery told her he felt the job was dangerous and someone was going to get killed,” an officer in the Minneapolis St. Paul Airport Police wrote in a recently released report. Tukua, a 46-year-old Hastings man employed by the Jordan-based construction firm S.M. Hentges, was working on a Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) project to create a drainage pond to capture runoff from the airport and prevent …
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Sherry Bianchi-Knod
9:08 am on Friday, September 14, 2012
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