Vegas contractor and Elon Musk’s Boring Co. among ‘Dirty Dozen’ list
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- May 02, 2024
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2024 “Dirty Dozen” employers
called out last week by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health for allegedly being unsafe and reckless.
National COSH selected SpaceX and The Boring Co., both owned by Musk, for one slot, citing workers who suffered crushed limbs, amputations, chemical burns and a preventable death. In addition, Black Iron Reinforcing, owned by XL Concrete, earned a spot for a worker death from electrocution, a partial finger amputation, 29 OSHA violations in a decade and allegedly denying election results after workers voted to join a union.
The organization releases the Dirty Dozen as part of observance of Workers’ Memorial Week, April 21 through April 28. The list is selected by the National COSH team using nominations from local COSH groups, worker centers, unions and nationwide advocates.
Dive Insight:
Somerville, Massachusetts-based National COSH is a worker safety advocacy group, made up of 26 labor organizations. The council sometimes cites several years of a company’s history, which it annotates in its report, to justify each selection in its Dirty Dozen list.
For example, XL Concrete, based in Las Vegas, settled an OSHA citation for a $3,500 payment in November 2019 for a
worker who was electrocuted and killed
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