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Boring has never paid a penalty for incidents on its Nevada sites.

For those digging the tunnels, a perceived lack of consequence has sent a clear message: “It seems like people are going to have to die, because they won’t make shit safe for us,” one current employee says.

As the fallout from the closed investigation has been quietly playing out behind the scenes, more safety incidents have occurred on Boring project sites in Las Vegas, under what one recently departed employee described as a “cowboy” culture regarding safety protocols

The Boring Company’s project, which aims to build an 104-station network of underground tunnels under Las Vegas, is one of several major investments that Elon Musk has made in Nevada, including the $7 billion Tesla Gigafactory

The sequence of events raised alarm and has had a chilling effect within Nevada’s safety regulator, and it raises questions about the degree to which a powerful business is able to bend regulatory guardrails to its will and skirt proper oversight

At the beginning of that meeting, the citations and fines—among the agency’s largest in a decade and a potential threat to Boring’s plans to build tunnels in other U.S. cities—were summarily rescinded

Soon, something else disappeared: The record of the Governor’s office meeting

Boring Company was challenging citations from Nevada’s workplace safety regulator blaming it for chemical burns two firefighters had suffered in its tunnels during a training exercise.

By the next afternoon, a group of high-ranking state officials met with Davis, fresh from DOGE

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In response to the lawsuit, the city's attorney's office is expected to release a letter as soon as this week, with the police and medical examiner's report expected on the same timeline.

But that might not be enough to quell the concerns