A Dane County jury’s $24.3 million award in a 1999 construction accident was upheld today by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Terry Staskal, a construction worker for Kramer Brothers, was trapped for three hours and 15 minutes on June 9, 1999, by a collapse of a section of the fourth floor during construction of the University of Wisconsin Pharmacy Building.

The Dane County jury had awarded $8.8 million in compensatory damages, another $500,000 for his wife, and a $15 million punitive damages award.