Las Vegas Sun

Don't understand why a safety steward would speak as unidentified when pointing out safety or lack there of. Maybe it's the guilt and shame of not doing his damn job. Shame on him. Either the job is safe and accidents happen. Or this coward turned a blind eye, someone died and now is reaching out for his time in the Sun.

“It’s not going to happen, not in this city,” a safety engineer for a large general contractor said Monday, speaking on condition that he would not be identified. “It’s push push push.”

This nameless spineless safety engineer is part of the problem.

Like I've said before, I work for a non union ironworker contractor and have for the last 10 years.

The non union side is 10 times unsafe, but I guess there's more of a spot light on the strip. If you want to investigate danger in construction, come visit all these non union contractors. I hate to admit it but, I wish I was in the union.

There's alot of blame to go around. If you think an OSHA fine would have saved these preciouse lives, YOU ARE DEAD WRONG.

Turning the death of a worker to sensationlism.

Safety comes from within.

OSHA is undermanned and overworked. I have worked as a non union Ironworker for over 10 years.

It is normal practice to work unsafe with us. I've told several non union contractors that we are working unsafe and that we need safety equiptment like safety harnesses, eye protection, hard hats, etc......... They just yell at me and tell me if I want to work safe.....go Join the Union.

I know that this is the focus of your paper because of the high profile.

If you really want to see how dangerouse these contractors are, make an investigation on all these non union contractors that work all over the state of Nevada.

I wish I could be part of the union and be able to work safe. It is always sad when a worker loses his life at work. I'm just disgusted at how how people are reading this and imaging complete caos on these job sites. I've driven by these jobs on my way to my $19.50 an hour job.

What I see is a symphony in action.

Come visit all thes non union contractors, WE NEED YOUR HELP.