Elon Musk’s Boring Company came under fire Tuesday during a more than three-hour Nevada legislative hearing about the Elon Musk–owned tunneling startup’s safety and environmental track record as it tries to dig an underground transit system below Las Vegas.
State legislators on Nevada’s growth and infrastructure interim standing committee presented a lengthy list of violations that Boring has racked up since 2019—including citations over chemical burns; digging too close to the Las Vegas monorail; hundreds of environmental violations; wastewater dumping into county manholes; and accidents and mishaps that have happened during construction. They also peppered state regulators with questions about the adequacy of their oversight of Boring and asked how the legislature could help them better monitor the company in the future.
Some of the safety issues discussed at the hearing—including that two firefighters were burned by chemicals during a training drill and that an enormous concrete bin had collapsed in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center—as well as issues with oversight, were first disclosed to the public in stories by Fortune.
