ROCHESTER - When Andrew Gustin told his co-workers about the tattoo he wanted to get, they thought he was joking. Gustin was a bit of a joker.

The crew at Fox Plumbing and WaterCare didn't take Gustin seriously when he said he wanted his first tattoo to have something to do with plumbing. That first tattoo, a skull with two wrenches as crossbones, wasn't finished when Gustin died Saturday.

Gustin was involved in a single-vehicle rollover accident shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday in the 32500 block of Academy Road, not far from his Honey Lake home. He was pronounced dead at the scene just before 10 p.m.

It was tragic news to Chris and Mandy Fox, owners of Fox Plumbing and WaterCare, who learned Sunday morning that one of their two employees had died.

"It was just awful. He was really a good friend. He had his whole life in front of him.

We're very saddened by his death," Mandy Fox said.

The couple gave Gustin his first job when he moved to the area last fall to be near his mother. He was persistent. They gave him an opportunity and he ran with it, Mandy Fox said. He was the one who made all the emergency calls. People liked him.

But he was more than an employee, Mandy said. He was a friend who often stopped by the house after work to play with the Fox's three children.

"I don't think he realized how much he meant to this company. He was so outgoing.

"He smiled all the time. He made good out of bad. He is really going to be missed," she said.

Mandy and Chris Fox last saw Gustin on Friday when he helped them clean out one of the company trucks for Waterford's Fourth of July parade.

Authorities believe Gustin, 27, was driving a friend's 2004 Ford F-250 that rolled over shortly after 9 p.m. Gustin was thrown from the vehicle and landed in the middle of the road. Doctors later pronounced him dead at the scene.

Rescue crews had to extricate a female passenger from the truck. Lorie Kinesley of Elkhorn was taken by Flight for Life to Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, where she was listed in satisfactory condition Sunday, according to Sgt. Carl Laux of the Racine County Sheriff's Department.

Kinesley and Jeffrey Hynous of Burlington were passengers in the truck when it crashed just west of Heritage Road.

Witnesses said Hynous indicated that the three were traveling east from the Honey Lake Inn, 35415 Academy Road, to the Hitch-N-Post Saloon, 120 South Browns Lake Drive, when the vehicle left the road, missing two utility poles and rolling at least three times, according to witnesses, before coming to rest in a culvert on the opposite side of the road.

Hynous is the owner of the vehicle, according to the Sheriff's Department. Rescue crews transported Hynous to Burlington Memorial Hospital where he was treated for minor injuries. Another Flight for Life helicopter from McHenry, Ill., responded to the scene. Crews from Rochester, Waterford and Wind Lake also responded to the scene.

The Racine County Sheriff's Department was still investigating the crash and conducting interviews Sunday.

Neighbors in the area, who responded to the scene after hearing the crash, say accidents are a common occurrence. This stretch of Academy Road requires drivers to navigate an S-curve.

Witnesses said drivers often ignore the posted speed limits and the signs that warn drivers to slow down for the curve. They hope that something might be done to reduce the number of accidents.

"It's kind of a nasty area. There are enough signs that are posted," Laux said. "You can't straighten all the curves out. People have to follow the directions on the road."