A Vancouver, Wash.-based contractor is under renewed scrutiny after the Port of Longview temporarily halted its $44 million rail expansion project in June. The pause in construction comes after a second worker in two years was airlifted with severe injuries sustained on a jobsite operated by the construction company, Rotschy Inc.
When the company was awarded the Industrial Rail Corridor Expansion project, Rotschy was already on state officials’ radar following a 2023 workplace injury that left a 16-year-old missing both legs. The project would add two new rail tracks along the Columbia River.
“It’s a big-enough project, I am genuinely concerned someone else is going to get hurt,” said Evan Jones, a Port commissioner, in an interview with Cascade PBS…