Death of construction worker 'could have been prevented'

George Cole, ironworker and brother-in-law of Harold "Rusty" Billingsley who was killed in a recent Las Vegas construction accident, says that Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) withdrew all citations and fines which was initially offered as the accident could have been prevented. Cole says Billingsley's employer bore no responsibility. Cole discusses unsafe working conditions and OSHA's failure to enforce safety standards. (0:57)
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Four construction worker deaths each day

Mark Ayers, president of Building and Construction Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) gives statistics regarding the number of deaths of construction workers compared to the number of deaths of firefighters and law enforcement officers. He says there is a better chance of surviving a tour of duty in Iraq than to survive a day on a construction site. Ayers says on average, four construction workers are killed each day. (1:19)
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