Crane Accident at Las Vegas Project Kills Worker – – Eighth Death in Seven Years

Las Vegas, which is in the midst of a decade-long transformation into what amounts to a gigantic gambling theme park, is paying the price for its construction boom in worker deaths.The latest incident occurred in early April, when a construction crane carrying 25 tons of prefabricated concrete slabs bumped something on the 23rd floor of the Aladdin Hotel and Casino project. The concrete panels fell to the 16th floor of the building. Welder Steve Abernacke, 42, of Columbia, S.C., who wa