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Workers wait, watch for missing comrades By Amy S. Rosenberg
Many walked away in tears, but returned shortly after to head inside to start work securing the site. 'We're ironworkers, and we're just waiting for the call to go in,' Vinnie Piazza said. 'They're union brothers. We're all union workers ready to do anything.'

Builders were fined for safety violations at Tropicana site By JEFFREY GOLD AP
Workers at the $245 million garage, for the Tropicana Casino Resort, expressed concern that the project's design and pace might have contributed to Thursday's collapse that killed four at the Tropicana Casino Resort site.

Officials deny rush as cause of collapse By Elisa Ung, Jennifer Moroz and Jacqueline L. Urgo
Ironworker Lou Fiorentino, 54, who worked at the site earlier this year, criticized the "filigree wideslab" method used to construct the garage. The method uses prefabricated plates as the base for a second layer of poured concrete.

"They bring in pieces made somewhere else and you have to link them together - it's built somewhere else and you have to make it right," Fiorentino said yesterday. "This type of construction is meant to save money... . I say it's faulty. It's built like a deck of cards. You can imagine what happens when they come down."

Investigators Look For Answers To Parking Garage Collapse NBC News
OSHA requires that an accident be reported only if there is a fatality or three or more injuries on the same accident.

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