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April 26, 2024

Construction Deaths

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  • Federal Hearing Focuses on Vegas
  • Hopes of Change
  • CityCenter Workers Strike
  • Cost of Expansion

Wed, Apr 22, 2009 (5:30 p.m.)

Construction workers had been dying at a rate of one every six weeks in the $32 billion building boom on the Las Vegas Strip. But deaths stopped last year after the Las Vegas Sun exposed serious safety flaws on the sites and detailed how lax oversight by safety regulators failed to prevent accidents.

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