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Fall-safety requirement may get OSHA enforcement

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Responding to pleas from the Ironworkers Union following deaths on the Las Vegas Strip, Nevada workplace safety regulators appear close to what could be a significant change to improve safety in high-rise construction, according to several people involved.

The state’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration this week asked for and received the support of major contractors to begin enforcing a requirement to provide safety netting or temporary flooring to catch workers who fall. The safety flooring or netting would have broken the plunge of several workers whose deaths the Sun documented in March.

OSHA said it has not reached a decision. “A request has been made ... Nevada OSHA is considering the request,” OSHA spokeswoman Elisabeth Shurtleff said in an e-mail.

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