If the contractor that was awarded the project is unsafe, let the numbers show they are more unsafe than the other contractors. That should have been looked at when awarding the contract. However, this article purports to say that Perini shouldn't get a contract because they're unsafe. That is misleading because the other contractors also have poor safety records.

I think consideration should be given to the safety record of a contractor when awarding a huge contract like this. That is why I researched the safety record of Kiewit, McCarthy and Bechtel (the other contractors mentioned in this article) and what I found was amazing. THEY ALL HAVE TERRIBLE SAFETY RECORDS! Not only have numerous workers died on projects run by all three companies, but Kiewit has made efforts to cover up fatalities and has fired workers that were injured to stop other workers from reporting their injuries. There were 96 fatalities when Bechtel built the Hoover Dam. More recently Bechtel is under criminal investigation for deaths due to their negligence on the Big Dig site (not to mention the law suit that is pending due to the shoddy work on that project). Furthermore, Bechtel (owned by the 51st most wealthy person in the U.S.) is the same company you read about receiving no bid contracts for their work in Iraq.

I think what would be more informative than the story the Las Vegas people received would be actual stats of the number of fatalities per number of construction man hours for each of the companies listed above compared to the national average. That story would provide real information and not the misleading information we actually get. If the Sun hired journalists with any potential I am sure that information would be provided. Instead the Sun hires unskilled and incapable journalists and Las Vegas receives sub par and sensationalist news coverage. The Sun should be disciplined for the carelessness and negligence of their staff in publishing such garbage. All of the comments to this piece would be entirely different if the writers were exposed to information regarding the deaths on Kiewit's sites and the things that have happened on Bechtel's sites.