Orleans Hotel And Casino

A recently hired plumber was sent into the bowels of the Orleans hotel and casino last year to unplug a sewer pipe in a large grease trap -- an assignment that would be his last. The hotel had no permit or training program to allow plumber Richard Luzier to enter a confined space where he might inhale poisonous sewer gas. He had no breathing apparatus or emergency rescue harness -- all routine precautions. Luzier fell 12 feet and landed face down in fatty sewage.

Las Vegas building accidents: An article in Monday's Section A about a deadly streak of construction and building accidents in Las Vegas said that D. Roger Bremner, director of the Nevada Division of Industrial Relations, met with Boyd Gaming officials and reduced the severity of proposed workplace safety citations after an accident killed two workers at the company's Orleans Hotel and Casino. Bremner said he made the decision but did not meet with the company's officials.