Las Vegas may be lucky for some but not if you're a construction worker.For the second time this week, a construction employee working on a development on the Las Vegas Strip was killed on the job. A construction worker was killed just after 6 p.m. Thursday while he was working on an elevator shaft at the MGM-Mirage's City Center mega-resort going up next to Bellagio.
The worker probably never saw it coming. The Perini Construction employee was crushed by some of the equipment on the site, which was witnessed by his co-workers. Construction came to a stop on the main hotel and casino portion of the City Center project after a fatal accident left many wondering what went wrong.
The construction worker was killed while greasing a man lift elevator shaft on the tower. The counterweight system came down on top of him. The Perini construction worker died on the scene with reports of massive injuries.
It's not the first time this project with 3,600 construction workers has dealt with a fatal accident. In February, two workers were killed on this same site when a 3,000-pound retaining wall fell on top of them.
The victim was wearing his safety hat and vest. Emergency crews are calling this a bizarre accident.
This is the third construction accident in the past week on the Las Vegas Strip. On Monday, three floors of the parking garage collapsed at the Fontainbleau. Amazingly, nobody was hurt.
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