An I-Team investigation in Florida uncovered construction sites ignoring important health rules, potentially putting their communities at risk.
Despite the stay-at-home order due to Covid-19, construction in Tampa continues at a rapid pace. The area’s largest open construction sites employ more than 12,000 people. That work is allowed to continue under state and local stay-at-home orders, but only if workers abide by safety standards.
The rules include keeping workers 6 feet apart and wearing gloves at all times. However, the I-Team uncovered construction workers violating those rules at more than half a dozen work sites. They found workers sharing small lifts, and masons huddled together passing concrete bricks. Some workers wore gloves, others did not.
ABC Tampa shared their findings with Carole Post, Tampa’s director of development. “It’s helpful to keep that really important machine running but they have to do it carefully and they have to do it safely. To see that that is not happening though out all our sites is very disappointing,” Post told ABC Tampa,
Following the investigation, Tampa began sending out medical teams to do spot inspections at more than 50 major construction sites.
Source: ABC Tampa
