Las Vegas Sun

thanks markq for the great facts.i work at that site.as a girl it is hard sometimes with the bosses.and i did sign papers and did not read all the fine print ,,but i need too the next time if they will give me enough time to read them.we hump at this site...alice

If Anyone Knows mikeg can you kick the crap out of him. lol ... Alice,s Husband...N.Y.C. BORN..

This Crap Is Like picking Up A Playboy Book Instead Of Having The real Thing..like internet gaming...dont like it..

Coke Is All Over In This City ..Drug enforcement officials may soon have an accurate yet secret way to =
detect
drug use -- the toilets of the world.=20

Italian scientists discovered that nearly 10 pounds of cocaine residues =
flow
into Italy's Po River every day.=20

How is Italy's biggest river getting all that coke? From urine. Turns =
out
that coke users, like beer drinkers, just rent their substance of =
choice.
Although in the case of cocaine, it's transformed by the liver into
benzoylecgonine , or BE, before being excreted. BE can't be produced by =
any
other means, so when it's found in your urine sample, that spells =
trouble
with a big T.=20

Revealed Friday in the journal Environmental Health, this is the first =
time
the byproducts of illicit drugs like cocaine have been detected in river
water.=20

More surprisingly, the level of residues translates into at least 40,000
daily doses of coke snorted by residents of the Po Valley -- a great =
deal
more than official estimates of 15,000 doses of cocaine per month.=20

"We expected our field data on cocaine consumption to give estimates =
within
the range of the official estimates, or perhaps lower, but certainly not
higher," wrote Ettore Zuccato, of the Mario Negri Institute for
Pharmacological Research in Milan, Italy.=20

"There's likely more cocaine being used than Zuccato estimates," =
Daughton
said.=20

mikeg your an ass...i fly with them all the time ..never lost anything always on time..blame the us goverment ...and bush,,,they are slowing up the whole system with this 911 crap ...

i heard on the strip that for sure Rizzolo did it ....

Dwelling too much on what happens after an accident is almost blasphemy among some of the industry's hard-core safety adherents. Contractors claim zero tolerance for safety risks and projects visibly promote their number of "accident-free" days. The idea of preparing for an accident seems to undermine that iron-clad commitment to safety.

"I'd rather talk about prevention," replied one safety official who asked not to be named.

Yet jobsite accidents, injuries and deaths remain a fact of construction life, with annual U.S. fatality numbers stubbornly exceeding 1,000 since 1994.

Construction sites are inherently dangerous places with a fluid environment of people constantly coming and going, including subcontractors, suppliers, and part-time help. Heavy machinery, designed to tear, cut, dig, lift and pull, operates around the clock. Workers, as a result, must use good communication skills while maintaining a heightened awareness of their surroundings. It can be a tall order when performing physically demanding labor for 10 hours or more each day in 110-degree weather.

Safety is often handled differently from project to project depending on the contractor and owner. Many firms employ dedicated safety professionals to ensure secure working conditions through inspections, citations, and routine meetings to review work hazards. Some firms even offer cash incentives or raffle prizes for accident-free work.

Certainly, accidents are unwanted by everyone: contractors, owners and workers. It brings undesired publicity, slows construction progress and dampens worker morale. Incidents can additionally increase financing requirements and insurance premiums, making it more costly to do business.

There Has Been 10 construction fatalities on the Las Vegas Strip during the last 17 months. That’s more deaths than occurred throughout the entire 1990s Strip building boom. Next week, May 5-11, is Building Safety Week. It gives us pause for reflection. At what point do we say enough is enough? And where in the hell has the Occupational Safety and Health Administration been during these incidents? Their presence is felt only after a fatality has happened. Would more regular inspections force crews to change their jobsite practices? Or, more to the point, why have crews abandoned their normal safety procedures?

Nearly all of the construction on the Strip is performed by unionized labor that has undergone rigorous apprenticeship and safety training. It’s mandatory. But time is money in Vegas. And nowhere on earth is that more apparent than on the Strip. The sooner a casino opens; the sooner it makes money. Gaming giants have consequently shown little remorse over the loss of life. On the other hand, they're plenty annoyed over the bad publicity. They fuel fast-track schedules by paying thousands in bonuses for early completion. Conversely, they also penalize contractors thousands of dollars each day if things run behind schedule. Speedy delivery wins the job, regardless of the consequences. If a contractor wants the work, then safety citations and violations are acceptable. There’s money to be made.

Yet construction workers are willing accomplices. Many ambitious craftsmen willingly volunteer for overtime and weekend hours, clocking in 50 and 60-hour weeks, in exchange for a swollen weekly paycheck. CityCenter, for instance, has a daily payroll in the millions. It’s tough to be rested, aware and safe when working nonstop. Safety, however, in many respects, is a cultural phenomenon.

But will there be enough construction tradesmen left to man the jobs? Everyone has a price. And the price of life is being determined daily on Las Vegas Strip.

i work on that site. been there 6 months. i did not know mark .but i been rushed myself. near the end of the day we are told to button things up fast. not in a nice way. as a girl i do what i am told. if i dont i will be put on another job.there is dust on the floors all over. rails that shake. people over top of u dropping stuff.just to many people on that job.and we should not be working alone when connecting wires in a box. like georgelasalle stated in his comment. NO EYE WITNESSES.if you live here go take a look for your self.most of the time u could just walk in . the comment that mikeg made about a conspiracy. not one yet but could be. i am sure cover ups are going on everyday.and mikeg when a person dies.dont comment on some so called star picture of avril Lavigne in fishnets.save that for the strip.you dont want to piss off the I.B.E.W