Workers who sued over collapse of Seattle’s Pier 58 settle for $2.5M

Workers who sued Seattle over the injuries they suffered when Pier 58 collapsed in 2020 — plunging them into Elliott Bay amid slabs of concrete debris and heavy machinery — have settled their case for $2.5 million.

Three demolition workers accused the city and its contractors of neglecting the deteriorating downtown pier for years, rushing to raze the wood and concrete structure unsafely as it started to fail and sending them “almost like sacrificial lambs” into danger. They agreed to drop their lawsuit last month in an agreement where the city and contractors admit no liability.

The contractors’ insurance companies have paid to defend the city from the 2023 suit and are paying the settlement money to the workers, Tim Robinson, a spokesperson for the Seattle city attorney’s office, said