The family of a steelworker who was killed while building grandstands for the inaugural Formula 1 Grand Prix race in Las Vegas is suing several companies in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Tizoc Antonio, 37, had only been working for a few hours on his first day at the F1 construction site at the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas when he suffered an “incised wound of the neck” and was killed. He died on September 23, 2023, 8 News Now reports.
According to court documents, Antonio had attended an on-site training session earlier that morning. Around 11.30 a.m., he and other workers at the site were making cuts into aluminum decking with an electric concrete saw. They were working on the decking because it was “too tight to fit around an aluminum column,” according to the court documents…