Hardworking Colorado father dies in freak accident after carrying sheet of aluminum on roof during high winds
A Colorado father of two has died after a horrific work-related accident, leaving his widow and young children devastated.
Brian Danielson was standing on the roof of a Pueblo construction site holding an aluminum sheet when a strong wind knocked him into a power line.
“He was electrocuted and thrown about 30 feet off a roof,” Danielson’s lifelong partner Krystal Fawkes said Fox31 about the death of October 5.
“It’s a very freak accident,” she added.
Another worker called for help, but it was too late.
Brian Danielson died on October 5 in a “freak accident” at work, leaving his widow, Krystal Fawkes, and children, Dylan and Mason, heartbroken.
Danielson, who lived with his family in Littleton, owned a construction company called Greenhouse Guys for more than a decade.
He had previously worked at the scene of his death, making conditions even more difficult for his family.
Fawkes told Fox31: “It’s something we’re going to have to come to terms with, I think, but it’s going to take a long time.”
She described Danielson’s death as a “stone thrown in the road” for her and her sons Dylan and Mason, 11 and 13.
Fawkes and Danielson smiled together for a photo. Fawkes said his death was a ‘stone thrown in the road’
Danielson was thrown about 30 feet from a construction site roof after being electrocuted
The father is pictured with his two sons Dylan and Mason. The children have a hard time grieving, their mother says
“Both are struggling, but the youngest was like his shadow,” Fawkes said.
A GoFundMe was set up for Danielson’s family.
“Brian’s family struggles to make sense of it all as they try to figure out how to navigate their new reality in his absence,” the page reads.
This incident comes just a day after an Ohio soon-to-be father of three died after being shot in the head at a Turney Road Dunkin Donuts.
José Ervin, Jr., 32, and his wife Scierra Blair, 33, made headlines last year for having twins on the same day as their shared birthday.
Ervin died just a few weeks after his wife announced she was pregnant with their third child.
Fawkes said: ‘It’s just something we have to come to terms with, I think, but it’s going to take a long time,’ about her partner’s death
Danielson owned Greenhouse Guys for about a decade and had previously worked at the site of his death