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Thank you Alexandra for keeping this issue in people's minds. Lives lost cannot continue and with your help action is taking place!

"I'm envisioning this as more fact-finding than anything else". Great, that's what we need, more fact-finding and less action. When you find out the facts, are you actually going to take action? OSHA laws/rules and regulations are in place, it's the people running the local office that allow themselves to be influenced to drop or reduce citations/fines that are the problem. Clean house and start over! Maybe then we'll see some change in this valley.

please correct my email to prevail4justice@gmail.com

Felicity,
I agree with you 100% and I am taking on the fight to see some changes happen at NV OSHA. I encourage everyone involved to file a CASPA with Region 9 Federal OSHA. I know some don't think that will help but its a place to start and might wake them up. If you're interested in becoming involved write to prevail4justice.com. United we stand......

While all the players sit around and try to decide who can do what to help the situation, it all comes back around to NV OSHA management, acting director and everyone else above him who cannot seem to enforce their own regulations and codes because they are too afraid to ruffle someones feathers. TAKE A STAND NV OSHA and protect the workers like you are suppose to do and start with holding these companies and people involved accountable for their actions! It can't be done with dropping or reducing blatent violations. You (NV OSHA) see a "troubling pattern..."?! Then STOP being so lax in exercising your duty to hold up and hold to your own Standards and SAVE some lives in the process. Nice concept isn't it?

You're right on S. Purdy. This isn't about politics, this is about the injustice that has happened and it is a system that is not being enforced and is certainly corrupt.
With reference to my comment above, the comment by "inspector" is under the article entitled "OSHA goes easy" and not the one I listed. It's not just corrupt investigators, it goes all the way up the chain. Some investigators want to enforce their findings but are blocked by the officials above them and reduced.
Yes Felicity, they should stick to the fines but it doesn't help if the fines are reduced in private meetings between the companies and OSHA. The fines for my son's death was nothing compared to what they would have been had the director of OSHA not caved in and reduced the citations. What the casino paid was pocket change for the owner.
Write these lawmakers and make our voices heard so they will realize we are just as outraged over what's been happening as people are over what the doctors at the colonoscopy clinics did. They want those doctors to go to jail, as they should be punished, but what about punishment for these jokers? The employers are covered under the blanket of workers comp. and what should happen to all the corrupt officials within OSHA and the government?

Finally! Thank you to those who will take a stand and hold these hearings. Maybe now some action will be taken to stop the insanity being caused by OSHA and to finally see some form of justice for the families of our workers. Please do not forget the men killed at the Orleans on 2/2/07. My son was 26 and neither he nor the other man he was trying to save had to die that day. It was negligence pure and simple. It may not have been a construction site but they still died while working and NV OSHA let everyone down by dropping 'willful neglect' violations to merely serious. Read the comment from 'inspector' under yesterday's Sun article "Not in this city". The laws are in place and I believe the inspectors are doing their job, this comes from above their heads. Of course they can't seem to keep inspectors. The inspector on the Orleans case was so angry over what went on after his determination of 'will neglect' was reduced by the acting director of NV OSHA and Elliot and others all the way to the governors office he quit! Don't blame all the inspectors - go to the top!

I agree "shamelv". OSHA regulations would work if they were enforced. If enough job sites were shut down it would get someone's attention. My son, along with another man he was trying to save, were killed at the Orleans 2/2/07 due to neglect and the lead investigator determined that the citations should be 3 willful neglect, I forget how many repeat serious and a few others. He said the chief engineers who were there that day should be held criminally accountable for their actions, however, the acting director of OSHA NV took it upon himself to have a private meeting w/ the casino execs and reduced the citations to merely 7 serious citations. He could have sent a message to employers but he folded. NV OSHA continues to let the worker down by not enforcing their standards. Complaints on the Federal level can be filed (CASPA) and those involved should definately do so. I did and am waiting for their findings. The more they get the more they will realize the sad state that NV is in and hopefully do something about it.

I am the mother of a worker who was killed on the job due to unsafe practices in early 2007 at one of the casinos. The 'incident' took 2 lives and one man was seriously injured. NV OSHA did the same thing to us. What was determined by the lead investigator to be willful neglect violations was, after a private meeting between the acting director and the casino execs, reduced to merely serious. Family members - are you aware you can file a complaint against the NV office of OSHA at the Federal level? Email me at prevail4justice@gmail.com and I will share how and whom to write to. Together maybe we can bring about change.

I am the mother of a worker who was killed on the job due to unsafe practices in early 2007 at one of the casinos. The 'incident' took 2 lives and one man was seriously injured. NV OSHA did the same thing to us. What was determined by the lead investigator to be willful neglect violations was, after a private meeting between the acting director and the casino execs, reduced to merely serious. Family members - are you aware you can file a complaint against the NV office of OSHA at the Federal level? Email me at prevail4justice@gmail.com and I will share how and whom to write to. Together maybe we can bring about change.