The Boring Company’s tunneling operations have been temporarily suspended at one of the company’s construction sites as regulatory officials investigate a “crushing injury” Wednesday evening that took place in Las Vegas, according to spokespeople from the local fire department and OSHA.
Boring Company employees told emergency responders that a “coworker had sustained a crushing injury,” according to a spokeswoman for the Clark County Fire Department, who told Fortune in an email that the department received a call about an “industrial/machinery incident” at approximately 10:12 p.m. Wednesday evening. An 18-person rescue crew was dispatched, and the Fire Department used an on-site crane to lift the worker from the tunnel. The worker was subsequently transported to a local hospital, the Fire Department says. “The patient is reported to be stable,” the spokeswoman said. The hospital did not return an immediate request for comment.
The Clark County Fire Department said that tunnel boring operations had been temporarily halted at the site pending an ongoing accident investigation. A spokeswoman for Nevada OSHA told Fortune the agency had been notified of the incident and dispatched officials to the site to open an investigation…