OKLAHOMA CITY - We're learning more about the two victims involved in a deadly crane accident that happened on the Chesapeake Campus late Tuesday evening. Forty-two year old Michael Parsons was killed and his co-worker Brian Gobble was sent to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
As the sun rose Wednesday morning, light was shed on the scene where Michael Parsons was killed - revealing the crane his family says he took great pride in operating. Tuesday night it was a much darker image. As emergency crews backed away from crime tape, Parson's wife, Deana, was playing back her life, recalling the memories of their 6 year marriage after Michael was killed when something fell off the crane and onto him and Gobble. Deana was too emotional to talk on camera but was somehow able to hand write a note about her husband.
"Mike was a wonderful husband and father. Mike took his daughter, Sage, bike riding every afternoon when he got off work," she said. "When he had time, he loved to fish. He also loved being a crane operator and took a lot of pride in his work."
Both Parsons and his injured co-worker, Brian Gobble, were employees of Rent-A-Crane. Rent-A-Crane officials had no comment, but the Edmond construction company also working on site expressed condolences to the Parsons family.
"Our thoughts are with the family," David Pollard of Silver Cliffe Construction said. "We have no further comment pending an outcome of the investigation."
Medical Examiner's Office spokeswoman Cherokee Ballard said Parson's cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head and said his manner of death was an accident. His co-worker Brian Gobble was treated and released from the hospital.
As the sun rose Wednesday morning, light was shed on the scene where Michael Parsons was killed - revealing the crane his family says he took great pride in operating. Tuesday night it was a much darker image. As emergency crews backed away from crime tape, Parson's wife, Deana, was playing back her life, recalling the memories of their 6 year marriage after Michael was killed when something fell off the crane and onto him and Gobble. Deana was too emotional to talk on camera but was somehow able to hand write a note about her husband.
"Mike was a wonderful husband and father. Mike took his daughter, Sage, bike riding every afternoon when he got off work," she said. "When he had time, he loved to fish. He also loved being a crane operator and took a lot of pride in his work."
Both Parsons and his injured co-worker, Brian Gobble, were employees of Rent-A-Crane. Rent-A-Crane officials had no comment, but the Edmond construction company also working on site expressed condolences to the Parsons family.
"Our thoughts are with the family," David Pollard of Silver Cliffe Construction said. "We have no further comment pending an outcome of the investigation."
Medical Examiner's Office spokeswoman Cherokee Ballard said Parson's cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head and said his manner of death was an accident. His co-worker Brian Gobble was treated and released from the hospital.
