"Elon Musk's Boring Company came under fire Tuesday during a more than three-hour Nevada legislative hearing about the Elon Musk-owned tunneling startup's safety and environmental track record as it tries to dig an underground transit system below Las Vegas.State legislators on Nevada's growth and infrastructure interim standing committee presented a lengthy list of violations that Boring has racked up since 2019-including citations over chemical burns; digging too close to the Las Vegas monorail; hundreds of environmental violations;"
"They also peppered state regulators with questions about the adequacy of their oversight of Boring and asked how the legislature could help them better monitor the company in the future. Some of the safety issues discussed at the hearing, including that two firefighters were burned by chemicals during a training drill and that an enormous concrete bin had collapsed in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center, and issues with oversight were first disclosed to the public in stories by Fortune."
Nevada legislators held a more than three-hour hearing focused on The Boring Company's safety and environmental record as it attempts to build an underground transit system beneath Las Vegas. The committee listed violations since 2019, including chemical burn citations, proximity digging near the Las Vegas monorail, hundreds of environmental breaches, wastewater dumping into county manholes, and construction accidents. Committee members questioned state regulators about oversight adequacy and asked how the legislature could improve monitoring. Some incidents, such as firefighter chemical burns and a collapsed concrete bin, were first revealed in reporting. The Boring Company did not attend and provided a seven-page written response referencing its safety team and Nevada OSHA materials.
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