OSHA: Rushing to Build Casino Caused Death
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OSHA: Rushing to Build Casino Caused Death Save Email Print
Posted: 10:23 AM Oct 2, 2008
Last Updated: 10:23 AM Oct 2, 2008

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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Nevada workplace safety officials say the June
16 death of a construction worker at a Las Vegas Strip resort resulted
from a contractor rushing to build the casino complex.

The Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration says
the foreman supervising 49-year-old Lyndal Bates pushed employees
to work at unsafe speeds in building Boyd Gaming Corp.'s Echelon
resort.

OSHA says the work pace deviated from written procedures of
contractor Marnell Corrao Associates.

Bates was a carpenter. He died after mistakenly attaching his
safety harness to a piece of scaffolding he was tearing down in a
hotel basement. When he threw the scaffolding down, he went with
it, falling 13 feet and landing on his head.

Marnell has been fined $11,000 for five violations. The company
is appealing.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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