Mortenson Subcontractor Fires Worker Over Meta Data Center Noose

Construction worker walking through site

Noose incident followed case of racist graffiti at same project.

April 19, 2022

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James Leggate - Engineering News-Record

A worker on a data center project for Facebook parent company Meta in Utah was fired after admitting to tying a noose at the worksite where racist graffiti had also been found months earlier.

Reprinted courtesy of James Leggate, Engineering News-Record

Mr. Leggate may be contacted at leggatej@enr.com

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