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Alexandra Berzon Gaming Guru - Page 2Evidence of change: Six months, no fatalities29 December 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- In the past six months, not one worker has died.
To those involved in construction in Las Vegas, the six months since the death June 16 of Lyndal Bates at Boyd Gaming's Echelon is a reason to celebrate: Las Vegas had developed a nationwide reputation for unsafe conditions.
At MGM ... (read more)
Employers finding way around OSHA's tougher stance29 December 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- No one saw Michael Taylor fall to his death at the Cosmopolitan construction site nearly a year ago.
But in the investigation after his death, state inspectors found that one of the posts that held up a guardrail system had collapsed. A mistake by one of the many contractors on the ... (read more)
Suit names Boyd in Orleans death17 December 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The parents of one of two maintenance workers who died last year after entering a toxic manhole at the Orleans filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Friday seeking damages against Orleans owner Boyd Gaming.
Workplace accident lawsuits against Nevada employers are extremely difficult for workers and workers' families to win. ... (read more)
Injuries twice national average8 October 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Workers erecting the CityCenter and Cosmopolitan projects on the Strip are being injured at rates nearly twice the national average for the construction industry, although injuries have fallen sharply in the past year.
The rates were provided to the Las Vegas Sun by Perini Building ... (read more)
Despite downturn, unions seek to organize residential builders4 August 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Last week a wooden plank fell on Eduardo Acevedo and badly injured his finger while he was building houses for the construction company SelectBuild.
Then, he says, his boss tried to fire him.
Two days later, on Thursday, Acevedo gathered with a few fellow SelectBuild workers ... (read more)
State deal in deaths at Orleans questioned15 July 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Federal safety regulators have not yet released the results of an investigation into Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration's handling of events following the deaths of two workers last year at the Orleans.
But a former federal OSHA official said a draft of the ... (read more)
High-rise death mystifes family, offcials23 June 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- When electrician Mark Wescoat died two months ago at CityCenter, he left a mystery in his wake. Friends and family bemoaned that they didn't understand how he had come to fall two stories during the early morning of April 26. On the work site, rumors flew.
The results of a state ... (read more)
Strip carousers hear picketers' grievances4 June 2008
As 2 a.m. neared on Tuesday, construction workers marched in circles outside the locked gates of CityCenter, their picket signs raised above their heads: "Unsafe Job Site."
Karaoke from the Hawaiian Marketplace across the Las Vegas Strip grew more and more discordant, as it does there every night. ... (read more)
Nevada safety agency getting tougher22 April 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Contractors and union officials say the state's Occupational Safety and Health Administration appears to be getting tougher on construction companies in the wake of a Sun examination of how the agency has investigated construction deaths on the Strip.
Most recently, the agency did ... (read more)
Union demands safety upgrade9 April 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The Las Vegas Ironworkers Union is asking Nevada safety regulators to require contractors to provide netting or temporary flooring of the kind that could have saved two workers who fell to their deaths last year on the Strip.
Chuck Lenhart, Las Vegas-based business agent for Local ... (read more)
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