Elon Musk’s Boring Company suspends work on Vegas airport tunnel after ‘crushing injury’

Elon Musk’s Boring Company has reportedly stopped enactment connected a passageway it’s been digging to the Las Vegas airdrome aft a idiosyncratic sustained a “crushing injury” precocious Wednesday night, according to Fortune. Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has opened an investigation.

The Clark County Fire Department received a telephone astatine 10:12 p.m. section clip connected Wednesday and dispatched an 18-person rescue unit to the site. It’s unclear precisely what happened to the worker, but the idiosyncratic was lifted retired of the occupation tract by the section occurrence department, which utilized an on-site crane. The occurrence section told Fortune the idiosyncratic is “reported to beryllium stable.”

The Boring Company has spent the past fewer years digging tunnels that link the Las Vegas Convention Center with a tiny fig of adjacent edifice casinos. The underground proscription strategy has provided implicit 3 cardinal rides crossed the 3.5 miles of tunnels presently successful service. The institution has overmuch larger ambitions of connecting astir each of Las Vegas by underground tunnels, including the airport.

But dozens of workers person been injured during operation of these tunnels, and adjacent the company’s erstwhile information manager for the Las Vegas task has publicly voiced concerns astir the dangers faced astatine these sites.