David Mussatti, 27, of Bessemer, Mich., who died in Wednesday's industrial accident along with Steve Arnovich, recently had begun to put down roots in Superior, said his parents, David and Vicki Mussatti.
Mussatti got engaged a year ago, Vicki Mussatti said. He and his fiancee were waiting for her to finish school before they got married. Mussatti's father said the couple had purchased a home in Superior together.
"Things were going good for him," David Mussatti said. "Things were just lining up."
Mussatti said his son was an avid outdoorsman. The two went deer hunting together in Michigan's Upper Peninsula earlier this fall and the younger Mussatti got a spikehorn buck. The younger Mussatti also liked the fish the North Shore, the Brule River and the waterways around Milwaukee.
"He loved his trout and his steelhead and his walleye," David Mussatti said.
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David Mussatti said his son enjoyed his work with Enbridge.
"He liked Superior. He liked the guys he worked with in Superior a lot," David Mussatti said.
The younger David Mussatti's death dims a source of joy for his family.
"He's the type that always had a smile, a good word," the senior David Mussatti said.
"I never heard anybody complain about him," he added.
"He was devoted to his family," Vicki Mussatti said. "He was young, but he loved his family, and we loved him."
