DAVENPORT, Iowa—Iowa’s health agency has determined that the deaths of three men crushed in the collapse of a downtown Davenport building were accidental.
The finding released Monday by the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services declared the deaths of 42-year-old Branden Colvin Sr., 51-year-old Ryan Hitchcock, and 60-year-old Daniel Prien as accidental. All had suffered multiple crush injuries and “mechanical asphyxiation,” a term used to indicate that an object or body position prevented a person from breathing.
