Worker, 18, dies after being shocked, injured on Vikings job site in Eagan
Aaron Michael Welle of Holdingford, Minn., was holding an electrical cord and stepped in a puddle of water March 3. First responders found Welle not breathing and unconscious; he died Friday, March 5.
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Nick Ferraro / Pioneer Press | 8:50 am, Mar. 10, 2021 ×
EAGAN, Minn. An 18-year-old worker who was shocked and seriously injured at an Eagan, Minn., construction site died two days later.
Aaron Michael Welle of Holdingford, Minn., was holding an electrical cord and stepped in a puddle of water around 1:45 p.m. March 3 while on the job site of an apartment project under construction at the Viking Lakes campus south of Interstate 494, Eagan police said. First responders found Welle not breathing and unconscious in the puddle of water. He died Friday, March 5, at M Health Fairview in Minneapolis.
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Jorge Villafuerte III left nine children behind when he was run over and killed by a large forklift this month during construction of the $2.6 billion Enbridge pipeline project across northern Minnesota. A hardworking man, he did everything he could to provide for his children, wrote his oldest daughter, 21-year-old Mikayla Villafuerte, in his obituary. Though often out of town for work, he loved to spend time with them and was always eager to brag about his kids to anyone willing to listen.
Details of his death were included in a police report released this week. The Aitkin County Sheriff s Office has preliminarily ruled the death an accident; the Minnesota Occupational Safety and Health Administration is still investigating.