Jobsite Fatality in Las Vegas Fifth for Perini During 2007
Perini Construction's luck on the Las Vegas Strip has seemingly run dry. On Nov. 27, the firm suffered its fifth construction jobsite fatality this year. David Rabun, 30, plummeted 50 feet to his death Tuesday at Perini's $3-billion, 2,998-room Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino project on Las Vegas Boulevard at Harmon Avenue. The twin 600-ft-tall condo-hotel tower development abuts another Perini project – the $7.4-billion, 18.67-million-sq-ft CityCenter, scene of four project-related deaths this year.
Rabun, a member of the Ironworkers Local 433, was attaching a beam to an upper floor at the Cosmopolitan site. Around 9:00 a.m., a beam to which he was harnessed fell to the ground, taking him with it, said Scott Allison, spokesman for the Clark County Fire Dept. Rabun was rushed to University Medical Center, but died later that afternoon of massive head trauma. Nevada's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is now investigating the incident.