Another safety incident is being brought to light after Nevada OSHA officials competed another investigation into The Boring Company.
According to OSHA documents, the incident happened on July 24, 2025 at a portable substation at Convention Center Silver Lot 3, which is located off of Paradise Road and Desert Inn Road. Documents state a worker asked another worker for assistance with landing connections with a transformer at the portable substation.
“At this point, the panels of the portable substation had already been removed, and the first employee was under the impression that the second employee had already deenergized the equipment,” records state. “Without stopping to conduct a pre-task discussion or verify de-energization, the second employee got into a rear compartment of the substation’s transformer, and began to land a connection with a standard, uninsulated ratchet. The first employee was instructed to hold the other side of the nut with pliers while the second used the ratchet. At this time, the equipment and ratchet caused an arc, flash affecting the second employee only.”
The second employee, identified as Andy Shannon, was taken to Sunrise Hospital by a third employee after suffering from several burns.
During the investigation, inspectors found several issues that led to the incident. One was managers told inspectors they did not give the go-ahead to remove the substation panels and that Shannon did not follow instructions…