GREELEY, Colo. — A worker who died on Thursday afternoon after a trench collapsed at a construction site in Greeley has been identified by the Weld County's Coroner's Office as 59-year-old Jay Froshaug.
The Longmont resident was in a trench when the dirt wall collapsed, the Greely Police Department (GPD) said. An ambulance transported Froshaug to a local hospital, where he later died.
The call to the Poudre Ponds site was for a report of an injured worker, GPD said. The site is located near the 1100 block of North 35th Avenue.
Anyone with information about the incident who has not been interviewed by officers is asked to contact GPD at 970-350-9605.
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