Fire & Rescue
Man’s death related to construction project being investigated by Vernon County
Law enforcement in Vernon County and OSHA are investigating the work related death of a 39-year-old Viola, Wis., man in a construction accident.
The sheriff’s department said David Puig, a construction contractor, was seriously injured on Tuesday, while using machinery — an all-terrain telescopic handler — to install siding on a new home in the town of Harmony.
Puig reportedly became caught between the machine and a wall of the home.
First responders from the Genoa-Harmony Fire Department were dispatched to the scene, but Puig was already being transported by private vehicle to the Stoddard-Bergen fire station, where EMS workers used life-saving efforts on him.
Puig, however, was pronounced dead by the county coroner.
