A 23-year-old father was killed Monday in a workplace accident at a construction site in Brighton where a new $45 million Michigan Department of Transportation project is underway.
Family members identified the victim as Ryan Starnes of St. Clair Shores. Starnes was working in an excavated hole on Grand River Avenue under I-96 when he was struck by an excavator bucket.
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Family mourns loss of 23-year-old father killed in Brighton excavator accident
According to Michigan State Police, the person operating the excavator didn’t see Starnes. Both his uncle and grandfather were also working on site, with his grandfather serving as his foreman.
“His grandpa was the one that held him when it happened,” said Ky-El McRae, Starnes’ fiancée…