"Boring Company employees told emergency responders that a "co-worker had sustained a crushing injury," according to a spokeswoman for the Clark County Fire Department, who told Fortune in an email that the department received a call about an "industrial/machinery incident" at approximately 10:12 p.m. Wednesday evening. An 18-person rescue crew was dispatched, and the Fire Department used an on-site crane to lift the worker from the tunnel."
"The Clark County Fire Department said that tunnel boring operations had been temporarily halted at the site pending an ongoing accident investigation. A spokeswoman for Nevada OSHA told Fortune the agency had been notified of the incident and dispatched officials to the site to open an investigation. The incident took place along Paradise Road, where the Boring Company has been working on expanding its tunnel system to the Las Vegas airport."
A worker at a Boring Company tunnel construction site in Las Vegas sustained a crushing injury Wednesday evening and was lifted from the tunnel by an on-site crane before being transported to a local hospital. The patient was reported to be stable. Tunnel boring operations at the site were temporarily halted while Clark County and Nevada OSHA officials opened accident investigations. The incident occurred along Paradise Road on a project to expand the tunnel system to the Las Vegas airport. The company has approvals to dig a 68-mile public transit system and has completed 3.5 miles; previous investigations found dozens of employee injuries on other projects.
Read at Fortune
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]