Alexandra Berzon

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OSHA a no-show at safety session: City, county officials plan to look at role they can play; Monday, June 30, 2008; It took 12 deaths, a massive worker protest and a hearing on Capitol Hill to bring about Saturday’s meeting at the Clark County Government Center.
Union turns a worried eye on construction cranes: AFL-CIO to ask Legislature to reform already strict laws; Monday, June 30, 2008; Nevada has some of the most strict construction crane laws in the country, but labor officials want them improved.
Safety has gotten attention — slowly: Lawmakers, unions, Nevada OSHA increasingly regard it as essential issue; Thursday, June 26, 2008; More than a month ago, a sister of Harold Billingsley, the construction worker whose death was highlighted in a congressional hearing this week, e-mailed her three Nevada representatives in Washington to remind them about regulatory issues surrounding the fatality. The response was less than enthusiastic.
OSHA oversight in question: House committee testimony ‘raises very, very serious’ concern at state, federal levels; Wednesday, June 25, 2008; Witnesses and lawmakers at a House hearing delivered a blistering portrayal Tuesday of construction safety oversight on the Las Vegas Strip.
For family, hearing provides some comfort: Wednesday, June 25, 2008; George Cole ended his remarks before the House Education and Labor Committee with a plea.
Five minutes to save lives: Relative of fall victim has so much to say to House panel, so little time; Tuesday, June 24, 2008; A lot rides on George Cole’s five once-in-a-lifetime minutes. It’s a chance to educate lawmakers and the public about what Cole, with 42 years of ironwork experience in Las Vegas, thinks needs to be changed to make construction safer.
High-rise death mystiﬁes family, ofﬁcials: No safety violations, no reason for worker to be where he was — just unanswered questions; Saturday, June 21, 2008; When electrician Mark Wescoat died two months ago at CityCenter, he left a mystery in his wake.
Echelon latest Strip construction site to claim life: Tuesday, June 17, 2008; A journeyman carpenter died Monday morning at the Echelon construction site on the Las Vegas Strip.
Rush is on to make building sites safer: Experts think changes can be made before Strip projects are completed; Friday, June 13, 2008; The union walkout last week to protest unsafe working conditions at the CityCenter and Cosmopolitan construction sites began to pay off this week as labor safety experts and federal OSHA inspectors started to descend on Las Vegas.
Ironworkers push feds to restore safety law: Pressure on OSHA to step up fall-safety measures comes during agency director’s visit; Tuesday, June 10, 2008; The ironworkers union stepped up efforts Monday to persuade the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration to follow California’s — and, most recently, Nevada’s — lead and rescind a federal directive interpreting the agency’s standards for safety flooring.