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Deaths, Illeal & Leal Prolemsmiller & long ConCreTe ConsTruCTion , inC.

Reporting on Safety, Productivity, and Honesty in the Construction Industry.

Miller& long ConCrete ConstruCtion, inC., issue no. 1

Modern day slavery? M&L hires illeal worers,convicts, then it loies Conress to lealie scam

Is Miller & Longa company with-

out a country?See Editorial, pae 14

Some 90 percent of Miller & Long

Concrete Constructions 3,000 employ-

ees may be illegal Immigrants, judging

from a recent New York Times report

and police accounts of major arrests of

Miller & Long workers.

Additionally, others in the remain-

ing 10 percent of Miller & Longs

work force are ex-convicts who have

either termed-out or been paroled from

hard-time prison sentences for crimessuch as robbery, assault and theft, the

Washington Postreports.

Miller & Long is not particularly

ashamed of this. Record show the com-

pany is spending thousands of dollars

lobbying Congress to legalize in the

future some of the things considered il-

legal today.

In fact Miller & Long brags to the

press about its special relationship with

illegal immigrants and ex-cons two

groups that tend to be so grateful to be out

10 years o OSHA saety violations here,ut where did the other 50 years o?

Between Jan. 25, 1998 and Aug.

28, 2007, OSHA visited numerous

Miller & Long work sites which

resulted in the company being cited

for 68 safety violations including one

death and several injury accidents,

the Occupational Safety and HealthAdministration (OSHA) reported.

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of the Third World or the Big House

that they would not dare to beg for a

living wage, or for a 40-hour work

week, or overtime.

It has delegated a high-ranking

company ofcial human resources

Mysteriously, OSHA has appar-

ently deleted from its les all prior

safety reports involving Miller &

Long, since none can be found from

1997 all the way back to when the

company opened in the 1940s.

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director Myles Gladstone to exploit this

questionable business.

It also has retained the Capitol Hill

consulting rm of Akerman, Senterttto lobby to make their activities legal in

the future.

You may ask: How can a little con-

crete company thumb its nose at authori-

ties and spend tens of thousands of dollars

buying politicians? Well, Miller & Long is

not so little. It is listed as one of, if not the,

largest concrete rm in the nation.

According to the summer 2006 issue

ofMid-Atlantic Construction (an industry

publication), Miller & Long had revenuesof $372 million, while second-ranked On-

core Construction took in $58.4 million.

Records also showed Miller & Long

has completed more than $5 billion in

projects and poured 12 million-plus cubic

yards of concrete in that time frame, MAC

reported.

The story of how Miller & Long ig-

nores the law and exploits workers gets

bigger and seamier the more one looks

into it.Let us begin with a look into the much

reported travels of Miller & Longs head

personnel ofcer to devastated lands for

the little disguised purpose of luring des-

titute individuals to the U.S. by promising

them the jobs the company has been busy

booting American citizens out of.

Consider this glowing April 15, 2006

article from theNew York Times: Myles

Gladstone is a burly, silver-haired busi-

nessman who spends most days in a hardhat, striding through crushed gravel at

construction sites, greeting workers and

elding complaints.

But on Monday, Mr. Gladstone, 59,

who typically spends his free time col-

lecting antique jukeboxes for his home

in Potomac, an afuent Maryland suburb,

was caught up in the political ferment

sweeping the nation as he joined the

throngs of immigrants demonstrating

here. He said he could not afford to

simply stand by.As the vice president for human

resources of Miller & Long, a regional

concrete construction company, Mr.

Gladstone is responsible for a mainly

immigrant work force. Nearly 90 percent

of the companys 3,000 employees are

immigrants, mostly from El Salvador,

he said. And the tough border security

bill passed by the House in December,

which would make illegal immigration

a felony, could disrupt his companysoperations if it becomes law.

So when he heard about the dem-

onstration to protest the legislation, Mr.

who describes Gladstone as a genia

manager who wears a BlackBerry on

his hip.

Like many businessmen withlargely immigrant work forces, he sai

he did not know whether his employee

were illegal immigrants or whether they

had relatives who were here illegally.

Mr. Gladstone said the worker

all claimed to be here legally and ha

all presented documentation to prov

they were authorized to work in th

United States. But he also knows ther

is a growing industry in counterfei

documents, and he and other employercannot help but view the tough immi

gration measures under consideratio

in Congress with unease, the Time

MODERN DAY SLAVERYcontd from front page

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NEARLY 90 PERCENT O THE COMPANYS3,000 EMPLOYEES ARE IMMIgRANTS, MOSTLYROM EL SALVADOR...Gladstone and other company ofcials

decided to offer employees a day of

unpaid leave to attend the rally and push

for a bill that would legalize illegal im-

migrants. To show additional support,

he attended the protest himself.

We are indebted to the work

ethic they bring us, Mr. Gladstone said.

Without them, Miller & Long would

not be as successful, and I would not

be as successful.Native Americans, Puritan Yankees,

African-Americans and even Hispanic-

Americans all of whom had ancestors in

this land before the American Revolu-

tion are just too damn lazy to work, is

Mr. Gladstones undisguised message.

But hes such a nice guy! exudes

the starry-eyedNew York Times reporter,

reported.

This is very interesting, inasmuch

as further down in the story Gladston

brags to theNew York Times reporte

that since the 2001 earthquake in E

Salvador he has traveled to the county

21 times to distribute food and cloth

ing to the families of employees and

to oversee the construction of a health

clinic.

Such glad-handing tours to starving nations are not to be confused with

recruiting missions. We know thi

because Mr. Gladstone has assured u

that he does not know how any of th

2,700 El Salvadorians on his payrol

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actually got there.

Lavish in its praise of Mr. Gladstone

as a human resources director for Miller &

Long, the Times article also mentions that

he and Miller & Long President, Nicholas

G. Paleologos, were such swell guys that

they were persuaded to allow their work-

ers to protest at a demonstration against

a proposed vote in the U.S. Senate to

toughen border and immigration laws.

Giving their illegal workers time off

to pack a demonstration is not the only

way Miller & Longs management seeks

to inuence Congress. They do it the old-

fashioned way with money, too.

And their timing sould not be better. It

seems, by sheer coincidence, at the same

time the laws to toughen immigration

policies and policing were being proposed

in the U.S. House and Senate, the amount

of funds Miller & Long lobbyists primed

politicians with zoomed from almost

nothing in 2005 to some $130,000 in 2006

and then to somewhere around $220,000

in 2007.Youve heard of politicians glad-

handing contributors? This new move

by Miller & Long might also be termed

Gladstoning the politicians.

Those numbers were drawn from

documents registered lobbyists are re-

quired to le with the Clerk of the House

of Representatives and the Secretary of

the Senate. The reporting documents in-

tentionally keep the amounts couched in

very general and obscure terms so preciseamounts would not be available, even if

they were in fact reported.

TheNew York Times is not the only

mainstream media outlet that primps

and preens Miller & Long. The Wash-

ington Postdoes it, too.

Get a load of this Washington Post

July 10, 2005 article about how kindly

Miller & Long has given Kenneth

Boo Glover, a hardened criminal

who has spent most of his life, juve-

nile and adult, in one prison system

or another.

Guys call it doing life on the in-

stallment plan cycling in and out of

prison, all your sorry life, Washington

Postwriter Neely Tucker writes.

Glovers adult arrests ranged from

disorderly conduct to robbery, from

cocaine to assault. From 1988 to 1996

the hapless Glover was arrested 31

times resulting in 62 charged offenses

in eight years.

His last felony gig was for holding

up a gift shop on K Street in the middle

of the day while high on crack, the pa-

per reported. For that he took a six-year

fall in the federal slammer.

One must digress here. K Street in

Washington, DC, is the national Holy

Land for lobbyists. These lobbyists

help steal billions of dollars from the

public purse to benet their clients and

then happily retire with millions for

themselves. Poor, unemployed Boo

Glover on the other hand plies his own

much lower-end brand of thievery on the

same K Street and does hard time for it

Doesnt seem fair, does it?

Anyway, Glover eventually gets

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WHEN TOUgHER IMMIgRATION POLICIES AND POLICINg WERE bEINgPROPOSED IN CONgRESS, THE AMOUNT O UNDS MILLER & LONgSLObbYISTS PRIMED POLITICIANS WITH zOOMED ROM ALMOSTNOTHINg IN 2005 TO SOMEWHERE AROUND $220,000 IN 2007

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sprung and is back on the street, but hav-

ing glimpsed God he vows to go straight.

Church groups lasso him in. Get him a

schedule and somehow Miller & Longlearns about him and gives him, as Neely

Tucker of the Washington Post reports,

a chance to get ahead paying his

tuition paying him to attend, a car-

in the construction industry.

It would be unfair of us to casti-

gate Mr. Gladstones helping hand to

Mr. Glover, if it was just one of thosehappenstance charitable gestures most

people succumb to once in a blue

moon. But in this case it is part of an

orchestrated plan by Miller & Long and

One can just picture the prisoners

eyes bugging out at that prospect.

But there was a catch, Milloy

admitted.We start our day at 7 a.m. If you

come at 7:01 a.m. youre late, Glad

stone said. Weve had people living

within eyesight of the job and couldn

get there on time. We even bought som

of them alarm clocks, and then theyd

say the battery ran out or the electricity

was turned off. In the last two years, we

have offered employment to or actually

hired 200 people. Of that number only

two are still working for us today.Having read all that good new

about Miller & Long, we at Th

Contractors Critic would like Mr

Gladstone to answer a few questions

with accompanying proof: Is Kenneth

Boo Glover still with the rm? Can

we have the names of its non-manage

ment employees who actually were

able to retire with close to a million

bucks and some proof of how close to

a million it was?Gladstones admission to th

Washington Postthat only two of the

200 entry level employees were stil

working for us today brings up an

other important issue involved in Mille

& Longs massive program of worke

exploitation.

What about all those Central Amer

icans Gladstone has own down to E

Salvador to lure to the U.S.? Where ar

they now? Not a few are in jail awaiting deportation following a hit-and-run

accident in North Carolina.

As WRAL TV in Raleigh, N.C

reported in May 2006, At least 15

undocumented workers are in cus

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IN MAY 2006 AT LEAST 15 UNDOCUMENTEDWORkERS WERE APPREHENDED DURINg AN

IMMIgRATION RAID AT A MILLER & LONg jObSITE IN RALEIgH, N.C.

pentry class Amalgamated Builders and

Contractors.

However, other industry statistics

generally support the contention that

participants of the ABC apprenticeship

program have a slim chance reaching

that goal.

Worker-trainees gambling on thispromissory come line to borrow the

crapshooters term are discarded more

often than not. They are dumped just

as they approach graduation time and

replaced by fresh optionless down-and-

out suckers.

By the way, the Washington Post

subsequently published this correction to

the Neely Tucker article about Glover: A

July 10 Style article about former inmate

Kenneth Glover incorrectly identifiedthe organization that runs a carpentry

program in which he was enrolled. It is

the Associated Builders and Contractors,

Inc., not the Amalgamated Builders and

Contractors.

Associated Builders and Contractors,

of course, ABC is the most active and

notoriously pro-low wage lobbying group

Gladstone, the director of its human

resources department a term that

chillingly reminds a reader of min-

ing resources and ocean sh stocks

resources. Objects, not people.

Washington Postwriter Courtland

Milloy wrote in his Nov. 30, 2005, ar-

ticle Opportunity Knocks Hard at JailJobs Fair, that Gladstone was a gleeful

participant of the event.

Myles Gladstone, a vice president

at Miller & Long Concrete Construction

Co., brought good news to job seekers.

The D.C.-based company is the largest

concrete subcontractor in the United

States, with more than 3,000 employees

and about $400 million in construction

work expected to begin soon, Milloy

gushed, and he quoted Gladstone.Our minimum wage is $10.50 an

hour; none of our employees makes

less than that, he told them (inmates).

We also have a great benets package,

plus prot-sharing plan that has allowed

some of our employees to retire with

close to a million bucks, Milloy quotes

Gladstone as saying.



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tody after an early-morning raid in west

Raleigh. The raid stems from a trafc

accident that tied up trafc for hours on

Interstate 40 during Mondays morningcommute.

Work to add seating to the west

end zone of Carter-Finely stadium was

halted as immigration and customs

enforcement ofcers executed the raid

Tuesday. The workers had been hired by

Miller and Long construction agency to

renovate the stadium, in a $19 million

upgrade by the Wolfpack Club.

Authorities discovered the illegal

hot spot while tracking three undocu-mented people who were involved in

an I-40 accident The accident left a

minivan on its side and tied up trafc for

hours in the eastbound lanes.

Although the driver, who authori-

ties said caused the accident, ed the

scene, troopers questioned the other

three passengers. They did not have doc-

uments or identication to prove their

citizenship and they were released. The

driver has not been located. State Rep.Russell Calls said troopers should have

not allowed the undocumented men to

leave the accident scene. He said he will

use the incident as an example of how

North Carolina law enforcement should

have been more involved in detaining

and tracking illegal immigrants.

When El Diario de Hoy in El Salva-

dor replayed theNew York Times story

about Mr. Gladstones many trips their

helping earthquake victims (not to bemistaken, please, for recruiting workers,

thank you) the working of its Spanish

translation of the story described Myles

Gladstone as un corpulento empresario

de cabello plateado.

Translated back into English that

comes out, a fat boss with a silver

head.


Fat boss. Now does that sound

like the El Salvadorians are grateful to

Mr. Gladstone, or more like that they are

using him, as he is using them to meetgoals that are, in fact, unlawful, illegal

and immoral in the U.S. to which is

whispering his invitation and bragging

about it to the newspapers?

Shameless is too mild a word for

Gladstone and Miller & Long. Looked

at with a cold, dispassionate eye, Miller

& Longs hiring practices amount to

little more than a modern spin on the

slavery trade.

Which brings us to that group ofAmerican workers who are probably the

most aware of what slavery is, no matter

how bosses try to soft-sell it: African-

Americans.

Washington Postcolumnist Court-

land Milloy writes an April 12, 2006

article, Work Ethic, Not Latinos, is Job

Barrier:

A young black man gets a job as a

laborer on a construction site in down-

town Washington. He is not mentally or physically prepared for the hard, dirty

work ahead. Nor does he have a clue

about the rewards of perseverance. So

he wakes up the next morning, aching

and demoralized. He shows up late for

work and eventually stops showing up

altogether.

Meanwhile, a vanload of Latinos

pulls up to a job site. Only one speaks

English and serves as a translator. They

work as a team with near reckless aban-don, hardly stopping for lunch. Before

long, they are earning overtime pay.

Here The Contractors Critic would

like to note that this reckless abandon

the Washington Postproudly proclaims,

is precisely the sort of so-called work

ethic that leads to the kinds of injury ac-

cidents, industrial deaths and safety vio-

lations the federal Occupational Safety

and Health Administration (OSHA)

reports nding at Miller & Long job

sites listed elsewhere in this newslet-ter, as well as unreported incidents in

which construction materials were

dropped on passersby, trucks ipped

over and vehicles collided causing

injuries and deaths.

Working faster and cheaper and

with reckless abandon for Miller &

Long does not always turn out to be

a benet.

Be that as it may, let us return now

to Mr. Gladstones pontical musingswith the Washington Post: I have seen

these circumstances unfold and know

construction site supervisors who

have made similar observations. So

I am skeptical of claims that Latinos

are taking jobs away from African-

Americans, which is a complaint that

has resurfaced during the recent debate

over restricting immigration.

Of course, there are African

American successes in the constructiontrades. But there are troubling excep-

tions. For lack of even a rudimentary

education and, more fundamentally

the absence of family and community

support, far too many young black men

are unable to compete for jobs.

If the same effort to stop illega

immigrants were being used to end

say, illiteracy, then more people migh

be able to understand that ignorance is

the greatest threat to our national secu-rity. Stop the disproportionately high

dropout rates among black high schoo

students and the odds of getting a job

instead of going to jail improve.

When we visit the homes of our

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employees, we nd that Latino workers

have much more family support, more

intact families, than African Ameri-

can workers, said Myles Gladstone,vice president for human resources at

Miller & Long Concrete Construction,

the largest concrete contractor in the

country. When it comes to African

American workers, retention is a huge

problem, and part of the reason is a

lack of support.

One blogger at blaqblog.com was

incensed by Milloys article. (NOTE:

A blogger is someone who writes for

or keeps a weblog on the Internet inorder to voice opinions. Some of them

are sharp observers)

Bret at blackwealthnow.com post-

ed this comment on the blaqboard:

Its our fault, after 300 years of

slavery, sharecropping and moving

north to get good jobs working 12-


14 hour days in hot, sweaty factories,

that we cant get work today. This is BS.

The myth of the lazy American needs

to die and the myth of the lazy Blackfolks needs to die with it too. Some

good points are made, some truth is told,

but the overarching thesis of (Milloys)

article is off base, over-reaching and

absurd.

But Miller & Long does have its

surrogates in the African-American

community, possibly because they are

funding them.

Washington City Papercolumnist

James Jones, reports in Loose Lipsthat the African-American activist Robert

Green, operating through a front group,

Capitol Area Minority Contractors and

Business Association, (CAMCBA)

complained that the citys deal on a

union-friendly baseball-stadium labor

agreement was anti-minority.

The columnist pointed out however

that CAMCBA was an outt run by the

colorful and sometimes foulmouthed

advocate Robert Green who oper-ated on a $200,100 bankroll that came

from two big open-shop companies

concrete-contracting giant Miller &

Long and electrical-contracting firm

MC Dean. The goal of the CAMCBA

political action committee, according to

Brett McMahon of Miller & Long, is to

encourage free enterprise and support

D.C. politicians who oppose special-

preference legislation.

Both companies funding the PACare also associate members of CAM-

CBA, according to Green, who says his

organization cant accept money from

any political organization.

Associate member is Greens

code word for contributors who are not

minorities, the columnist explained.

SAETY REPORTScontd from front page

What happened? Where did they

go? Were they lost, stolen, strayed,

or were they never reported to begin

with?

It is not unreasonable to suspect

there might be something hinky goingon, (see To Die For, on next page) that

OSHA has managed never to nd out

about job-related deaths at Miller &

Long work sites, at least two of which

we know about. The Contractors Critic

is checking for more.

In any event this is what the safety

reports that could be discovered through

OSHA reveal about Miller & Long.

For instance, in one site inspection

alone in Towson, Md., 13 violations of

federal safety law were discovered, eight

of them serious (#302274006). Five

violations at another site in Baltimore,Md., produced three of them serious

(#309437093). Four serious violations

were found at a site in Virginia Beach,

Va. (#308564731). And two sites were

found with two serious violations

each one site was in Annapolis, Md.

(#304731003) and the other at Bethesda,

Md. (#305357022).

The remaining OSHA violations

were listed as single violations found. The

Contractors Critic is following up to nd

out how serious each of those cases migh

have been.

Inspectors characterized many of the68 violations as serious. Some of the

most egregious violations discovered were

also cited as repeat offenses.

Fines imposed for the most serious of

the multiple-violations reported totaled

over $70,000 in nes. The largest single


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Miller & Lon are to die orat LeaSt three workerS have dIed at mILLer & Long work SIteS, two

of theSe deathS were apparentLy never reported to occUpatIonaL

Safety and heaLth admInIStratIon (oSha), So far aS an extenSIve docU-

ment Search haS been abLe to determIne.

Of the 68 reports of safety code

violations OSHA inspectors found at

Miller & Long job sites in the last 10

years only one involved a death, ac-

cording to OSHA records.

However, The Contractors Critic

has been able to ascertain from court

documents and other public records

that at least two more people died in

connection with accidents at Miller

& Long jobsites, but were apparently

never reported to OSHA

That suggests that Miller & Long

is consistently skirting proper report-

ing requirements.

The death of Roberto Ayala Ri-

vera, 23, of El Salvador was one such

case. Rivera was killed Dec. 28, 1999

while working on a Miller & Long

project in Washington, D.C.

On behalf of Riveras survivors,

attorney Robert Short sued Miller

& Long on Dec. 20, 2000 in District

of Columbia Superior Court, as case

#0009137-00. Robert Short v. Miller

& Long Concrete Construction, Inc.

To die for contd next page

IS MILLER & LONg SkIRT-INg PROPER REPORTINgO WORkPLACE DEATHS TOOSHA?

SAETY REPORTScontd from page 6


ne was for $22,500.

Among the violations was one

involving the death of a Miller & Long

worker who died as the result of a fall

at a Falls Church, Va. jobsite on July 25,

2000, OSHA reported.

Employee #1 was killed about

10:30 a.m. when he fell while disas-

sembling a scaffold, striking his head

on a concrete oor.He was own by helicopter to a local

hospital where he died the next day from

his head injuries, OSHA reported.

Looking at the 10-year record and

considering the missing half-century of

safety reports, there are some things we

can surmise.

If the same levels of unsafe work

policies reported in the last decade also

prevailed in the previous decades that

went unreported, then The Contractors

Critic reasonably concludes that there

could be at least a minimum of 350 safety

violations that occurred. It would also be

reasonable to conclude that a substantial

number of those unreported mishaps were

serious in nature and that deaths may

well have occurred in connection with

some of them.

This is not good news for Miller

& Long, or those who hire them, or for

OSHA, which has made such a to-do abou

self inspection programs of employers

which according to OSHA have inspired

employers to provide safer work places.

However, based on Miller & Longsmissing years of accident reports it may

be that OSHA is reducing accidents sim

ply by allowing employers to not repor

them.

Specifically, since Miller & Long

seemingly doesnt report job deaths now

why, then, would it do so in the past?

The Contractors Critic will continue

to investigate this work safety mystery.

Miller & Longs 10 year saetyrecord as reported by OSHA

is chock ull o serious, dan-

gerous saety violations. For

specifc totals, pleasesee the

OSHA chart on page 10.

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aluminum beam

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Miller & Long Concrete Con-

struction has been sued atleast twice

for injuries suffered after heavyobjects were dropped on people

who just happened to be passing by

a Miller & Long worksite.

For example, according to the

lawsuit Leonard Douglas v. John

Doe and/or Miller & Long Con-

crete Construction. Inc. filed as

case #97-1080 in Arlington County

(Virginia) Circuit Court on Nov.

6, 1997, Douglas was hurt when

Miller & Long employee John

Doe dropped a piece of plywood

onto (Douglas), thereby resulting

in serious and permanent injury to

(Douglas).

Loo, Up in the sy! Its a plywoodsla! No, its an aluminum eam!

VISCARRA SUSTAINED INjURIES WHEN AN

ALUMINUM bEAM UNDER THE CONTROL, CUS-

TODY AND SUPERVISION O MILLER & LONgELL OUR STORIES ONTO HIS VEHICLE.

It seems Douglas was at the

Washington National Airport in Ar-

lington, Va. about 10:45 a.m. Nov.7, 1995 when the plywood piece

hit him.

For that he wanted the full and

just amount of $300,000, pus costs

and interests.

Elsewhere, according to docu-

ments unearthed from civil division

of the Superior Court of the District

of Columbia, another unusual event

involving Miller & Long was visited

upon Fulton, Md. resident Steve A.

Viscarra in 1998.


TO DIE OR contd from page 7

describes the accident this way.

Rivera was working for Miller &

Long at the job site on M Street near

the intersection of 5th

street in thedistricts southeast section about 3:25

p.m. Dec. 28, 1999.

And so it was that at that time

and place aforesaid Douglas D. Nan-

nah was operating a vehicle west-

bound on M Street and negligently

struck and collided with the decedent

inicting injuries which ultimately

claimed decedents life.

For this wrongful death Miller

& Long bore some blame, the suit

contends, because Miller & Long had

undertaken to manage vehicular traf-

c on M Street around the construc-

tion zone and had a responsibility to

adequately manage trafc to avoid

colliding with workers and to provide

a reasonably safe worker area to all

workers, even for foreign workers

such as the victim, Rivera.

However, Miller & Long failedto do this and so it exposed the de-

cedent and other workers to the risk

of injury by errant vehicles, the suit

contends.

Rivera was survived by his moth-

er, Cruz Ayala, of El Salvador, Central

America, who was next of kin and

heir-at-law. Moreover, she was nan-

cially dependent on Rivera at the time

of his death.

The victim was also survived

by Yakelin E. Ayala, his niece, and

Conseption Aayala, his sister, of El

Salvador, Central America, both of

whom were financially dependent

upon the decedent at the time of his

death.

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According to information laid

out in Steve A. Viscarra v. Miller

& Long Concrete Construction,

Inc. led July 20, 2000 as case

#0005414-00, Viscarra was south-

bound on 9th Street at or near the

intersection of H Street in Wash-

ington, DC, on Dec. 10, 1998

when literally out of the blue

an aluminum beam under the

control, custody and supervision

of employees or agents of M & L,

fell four (4) stories and struck

Viscarras vehicle.

Apparently, just looking bothways when crossing an intersection

is not quite enough precaution to

take whenever Miller & Long is on

the job. Best look up and down, to,

if the company is in the vicinity.

Viscarra demanded $500,000

for the injuries and damages he

suffered.

Miller & Long stipulated to

that is, admitted the liability,

but denied Viscarra had sustained

the extent of the injury and damages

that he is claiming, Miller & Long

responded.

In this additional example of

what can result when Miller & Long

employees careen along working

with reckless abandon (as the

Washington Postreports) it caused

Viscarra some $40,000 in suffering,

medical costs and lost wages, Miller

& Long asserted in its respondingcourt documents.

Miller & Long asked that the

suit be dismissed.

The Contractors Critic has yet

to discover any documents indicat-

ing the nal and ofcial outcome of

that lawsuit, but is pursuing such.

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TO DIE ORcontd from page 8

His brother, Enrique Ayala, a

resident of the State of Maryland also

survived the decedent.

For this the family sought $5 mil-lion in damages.

Although the suit was filed in

late 2000 there were, mysteriously

enough, no follow up documents

to be found in the case le. There

was no answer from Miller & Long.

No motion for summary judgment.

Nothing.

Which raises the question: What

happened?

Adding to the mystery is the

fact that this workplace fatality was

apparently never reported to federal

workplace safety and health investiga-

tors. OSHA les produced no recordsof this fatal accident being reported

to authorities as required by law and

process.

Another wrongful death case aris-

ing from another Miller & Long job

goes back to 1997 when the politically

well-wired rm engaged as one of the

contractors on a construction project

in Virginia, documents obtained in

the matter ofMonenne Y. Welch, Ad-

ministrator v. Miller & Long Concrete


Construction, Inc., et al; led as a

Law No. 167623, 19th Judicial Circui

of Virginia.

This is one of those rare caseswhere the facts are truly not in dispute

All parties agree as to what happened

The following is taken directly from

Plaintiffs pleadings, the court deci-

sion states, and goes on to quote from

the original pleadings:

On October 8, 1997 the deceased

Bernie P. Welch, was operating a dump

truck on behalf of his employer, C.W

Strittmatter Company, on the job in

question. Miller and Long owned a

mobile motor vehicle truck fty (50)

to crane, and its employee Nathan

Gunn was operating the boom when

the whole truck tipped over. The boom

crushed the cab of Mr. Welchs truck

crushing him.

The Strittmatter truck was insured

Welch was driving it in the course of

his employment. Moreover, Welch

also had a personal automobile policywith GEICO which had provisions tha

covered him at the time, the decision

stated.

All parties agree (Miller & Long)

falls within the jurisdiction of the ap-

plicable laws.

Miller & Long argued that Welch

had other avenues for seeking remedies

to the death liabilities. GEICO claimed

immunity.

The appeals court agreed with the

lower court judgment rendered by Fair-

fax County Circuit Court Judge Kathleen

H. McKay.

In this case, too, the death went

unreported to OSHA by either company

involved and no OSHA inspection of

Miller & Long and/or Strittmatter Com-

pany ever took place.


10/16

Miller & Lons dismal 10-year worplace saety totalsMiller & Longs 10-year safety

record is listed below. The violations

listed reect initial citations and nes

proposed by the Federal Occupational

Safety and Health Administration

(OSHA). Violation totals may have

been reduced or bargained down at

later dates. Investigations of accidents

may still be open and therefore, viola-

tions and/or nes were not available

at the time of publication. The inspec

tions below may not be a complete lis

of Miller & Longs OSHA history. Fo

more information see the OSHA web

site at: http://www.osha.gov.

08/28/07

07/06/07

02/22/07

09/26/06

09/08/06

01/30/06

11/04/05

10/19/05

08/25/0504/13/05

01/12/05

12/14/04

10/27/04

10/22/04

07/01/04

03/22/04

10/01/02

07/15/02

11/01/01

10/05/0108/20/01

02/26/01

10/16/00

09/28/00

09/13/00

07/25/00

06/26/00

06/20/00

04/05/00

05/20/99

03/19/9903/08/99

10/23/98

06/17/98

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310805981

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310221510

309628451

309437093

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307995662

306696162

307218198

305571598

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$2,100.00

$700.00

$825.00

$1,350.00

$0.00

$0.00

$4,225.00

$10,000.00

$3,500.00$4,500.00

$3,300.00

$5,000.00

$20,000.00

$1,500.00

$2,500.00

$3,150.00

$3,475.00

$3,500.00

$3,062.00

$22,500.00$2,975.00

$5,000.00

$3,400.00

$2,750.00

$2,100.00

$0.00

$4,000.00

$2,500.00

$3,500.00

$19,036.00

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$12,624.00

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3 worplace accidents1

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11/16

A Virginia woman sued Miller &

Long and one of its employees after an

Aug. 18, 2006 vehicular crash on a con-

necting ramp from Route 1 to I-395.

The injuries she suffered led her

to sue Miller & Long for $250,000,

according toRobin R. Hayes v. Miller& Long Inc. and Samuel Wesley Smith,

filed as case #07-296 in Arlington

County (Virginia) Circuit Court on

March 5, 2007.

Hayes alleged that at around 6 p.m.

that evening she was northbound in

the left lane of the entrance ramp from

Route 1 onto I-395 and collided with a

tractor-trailer driven by Smith.

Smith was operating a vehicle

owned by defendant Miller & Long in

the same direction and place as (Hayes)

when he failed to slow down to avoid

a collision, and rear-ended (Hayes),

pushing her vehicle to the Jersey wall

on the opposite side of the highway.

A Jersey wall, also known as a

Jersey barrier, is the workplace nick-

name of a barricade that separates

lanes of trafc often opposing lanes

of trafc in order to minimize vehicle

crossover in the event of accidents.

As a result, Hayes was caused to

sustain serious and permanent injuries

and which thereafter prevented her

from transacting her business. More-

over, the suit states, the victim will

continue to suffer great pain of body

and mind as a result of the permanent

disability, deformity, loss of earnings

and earning capacities as a result of

the collision.

Hayes was transported by am-

bulance to a hospital where doctors

treated her for injuries including, an

exacerbation of lumbar disc degenera-

tion and myofascial pain secondary to

the crash of 8/16/06 with trigger points

in the buttocks.

In other words, Smith rear-end-

ing her with the Miller & Long trac-

tor-trailer he was carelessly driving

proving to be a pain in the butt for the

unfortunate Hayes.

For those and other injuries Hayes

asked the court to award her $250,000,

plus any and all legal and court costs,

the suit states.Miller & Long replied to Hayess

suit March 22, 2007 by asserting it

was without sufcient knowledge or

Other accident claims aainst M&L

$250k lawsuit stems rom Miller & Lon driver accident


gags was that, no matter what mischie

Hogan and his heroes might be involve

in, Sergeant Schultz would assure Colo

nel Klink that, I see nussing. I know

nussing.

Miller & Long also informed th

court that it intended to raise any andall defenses which become available

up to the time of the trial.

Among other things Miller & Long

contended that Hayes was barred from

any recovery in this case under the doc

trine of assumption of risk.

In lawyer lingo Miller & Long

mouthpiece was thereby contending tha

simply by getting into her vehicle and

operating it on a public highway that day

Hayes automatically put her self at riskand therefore consequently at least partly

guilty of harming herself.

Why, if she and her vehicle hadn

been where they were at the time of th

accident then Miller & Longs drive

and vehicle couldnt possibly have hi

her, right?

Medical expert witnesses were to b

called by both parties, other document

led in the case showed.

Employees of Miller & Long, Inc.

have been involved in other vehicular

accidents during the course of their

work.

In 2004 Olga Teutler through or

under Allstate Insurance Company

sued Miller & Long and Thomas Mayin connection with a vehicular accident

in Springeld, Va.

In Olga Teutler v. Miller & Long

Conrete Construction, Inc., Thomas

May, led in the Montgomery County

(Maryland) District Court as case

#10670-2004 on May 5, 2005, Teutler

alleged that on Feb. 25, 2004 her vehicle

operated at the time by one Alexander

Teutler on Carleigh Parkway was struck

at the intersection of Old Keen Mill Road

in Springeld, Virginia by a Miller &

Long vehicle driven by May.

May allegedly drove through ared light at the intersection, colliding

with Teutlers vehicle, according to

the suit, which sought $2,657.83 in

damages.

The case was dismissed appar-

ently upon settlement on June 23,

2004, court documents showed.

MILLER & LONg ARgUED THAT

HAYES PUT HERSEL AT RISk

bY OPERATINg HER VEHICLE

ON A PUbLIC HIgHWAY, AND

THUS SHOULD bE bARREDROM ANY RECOVERY.

information to admit the allegations

in Hayess complaint. This is known

colloquially as the Sergeant Schultz

Defense.

The term derives from the Ho-

gans Heroes television series char-

acter in which one of the running


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01/23/08

07/16/07

05/23/07

05/04/07

02/26/07

02/12/07

11/24/06

07/20/06

06/16/06

04/14/06

04/14/06

03/08/06

02/14/06

12/20/05

09/02/05

06/20/05

06/13/05

06/01/05

04/19/05

12/22/04

11/12/04

11/05/04

10/15/04

10/01/04

05/13/04

05/13/04

05/13/04

05/04/04

04/22/04

04/06/04

12/31/03

12/30/03

10/22/03

09/29/03

09/24/03

08/15/03

08/06/03

07/11/03

07/08/03

Extraordinary numer o lawsuits land Miller & Lon in courtThe listing below is only a partial record of litigation involving Miller & Long Concrete Construction.

As of publication, LASERs research has turned up at least 87 additional lawsuits in which Miller & Long is named as a party of interest.

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60200283172003

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60200212152003

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50200282402003

50200271592003

40200025442003

100200017682003

Prospect Waterproong v. Miller & Long

Glen Construction Company, Inc. v. Miller & Long

Fia Card Services Bank v. Neale, Christopher

Yates, James v. Miller & Long

Pasadena Receivables, Inc. v. Gavida, Jose

Moore v. Miller & Long, et al

Revels, Ray L v. Miller & Long

Discover Bank v. Garrido, Victor

Goss, Mitchell F. v. Miller & Long

A & A Window & Glass, Inc.. v. Glen Construction Co., Inc., Miller & Long

Brown, David v. 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Inc., Miller & Long

Jantio, Roger B. v. Washington Automotive Co.

Grady MNGT, Inc. v. Montanez, Heriberto

University of MD Medical v. Bowers, Jack Leroy

Inova Alexandria Hospital v. Smith, Lee

Toyota Motor Credit Corp. v. Douglas, Martel

Green Tree Servicing LLC. v. Favorite, Larry R.

Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Velaszues, James

Great Seneca Financial Corp. v. Guerrero, Jose

Aparicio, Jose L v. Miller & Long

Great Seneca Financial Corp v. Rogers, Eliott K

RAVI PASSI, M.D. v. Bravo, Stephen

Santos, Maria v. Santos, Pablo

Enterprise Leasing Co. v. Kadcon Corp.

Argueta, Douglas v. Cantrell, Wesley

Argueta, Ceceila v. Cantrell, Wesley John

Argueta, Ceceila v. Cantrell, Wesley John

Olga Teutler, ALLSTATE v. Miller & Long

Mid Atlantic Finance Corp. v. Brown, Ronald Willis

Palisides Collection LLC v. Wheatley

Miller & Long v. Cruz, Pedro

Laurito, Eduardo v. Miller & Long

In The Matter of: Jason L Ruby v. Miller & Long

Platinum Financial Services Corp. v. Ramirez, Rudy

Miller & Long Company Inc v. Ruby, Jason L.

Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Bragg, John

Sage Financial v. Huff, David

Capital One Bank v. Bates, Duane

CITIFinancial FKA Commerical Credit v. Haugh, Gary Sr.

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07/02/03

06/10/03

05/01/03

02/27/03

02/11/03

02/11/03

11/20/02

11/20/02

10/09/02

09/13/02

09/06/02

07/23/02

07/15/02

06/21/02

06/07/02

04/26/02

11/16/01

09/27/01

09/26/01

08/16/01

07/19/01

07/06/01

07/05/01

05/16/01

04/25/01

04/03/01

03/29/01

02/06/01

02/06/01

01/25/01

01/25/01

12/08/00

11/02/00

09/07/00

08/08/0007/20/00

07/19/00

06/01/00

05/24/00

04/04/00

03/31/00

03/29/00

03/24/00

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50200237292000

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May Department Stores v. Jones, Herbert

Toyota Motor Credit Corp. v. TURCIOS, GRETA J

Twyman, Dorian v. Miller & Long Co.

Toyota Mortor Credit Co. v. Sanchez, Jesus Orlando

Platinum Financial Services Corp. Corp. v. Huff, David

Platinum Financial Services Corp. Corp. v. Carter, Charles

Alan Corneld, DC v. Gavidia, Jose

Coneld, Alan D.C. v. Gavida

Thurmont Cooperative Inc. v. Favorite, Larry R.

Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Monzon, Efrain

Montgomery General Hospital v. Fultz, Larry

Rose Shanis Financial Services, Llc. v. Wines, Ortho

Loudoun Hospital Center v. Mcinnis, Carel R.

Capital One Bank v. Thomas, Willie

Gonzalez, Oscar A. v. The Donohoe Companies Inc.

Seneca Physical Therapy v. Vaughn, Andrew

Platinum Financial Services Corp. v. Gonzalez, Daysi

Warren Memorial Hospital Inc v. Roberts, James G Sr.

Alan D. Corneld, D.C. v. Matamoros, Maria

Coneld, Alan D.C. v. Flores, Fernando

Torres, Alva v. Torres, George L and Miller & Long

Chrysler Financial Company Llc v. Cheverton, George H.

Chrysler Financial Co. LLC v. Bonilla, Fabio Guerra

Pasadena Receivables, Inc. v. Denson, Olivia

Gomez, Jose Carlos v. Miller & Long

Holy Cross Hospital v. Parada, Oscar

Platinum Financial Services Corp. v. Brown, Charles

Southern Management Corp. v. Baker, Jesse

Southern Mngt. Corp v. Baker, Jessie

Platinum Financial Services Corp. v. Sosa, Jose

Platinum Financial Services Corp. v. Sosa, Jose

RA Rivera, Robert v. Miller & Long

Musically Yours v. Thompson, Robery

Miller & Long, et al v. Constantiny, Roger

Green, Presidential v. Freman, Joe

Viscara, Steve A v. Miller & Long

Realty Mngt. Serv Inc. v. Thomas, Clifton

Berrios, Enez v. Steele Foundations, Inc., Miller & Long, et al

State of Maryland, DLLR v. Hensly, Kenneth

Rose Shanis Financial Services LLC v. Umansor, Florentin

State of Maryland, DLLR v. Robinson, Oneill

St. Marys Hospital MD v. Smith, Dwight

May Department Stores v. Lomeli, Jose

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14/16

EDITORIAL

Miller & Lon: A company without a countryLASER has been investigating and

publishing information about unscrupu-

lous, irresponsible and unprofessional

contractors for almost 15 years. I have

been personally involved in the construc-

tion industry for over 35 years and in all

that time, neither LASER or I ever have

come close to nding such a morally

corrupt and unscrupulous contracting

company as Miller & Long Concrete Con-

struction and its various identities. With

this being said, I will attempt to explain

why Miller & Long, which happens to

be the largest concrete contractor in the

country, is in reality, cmpy wtht

ctry.

On behalf of LASER and myself, I

want to make it perfectly clear that legal

immigrants are not at issue in this publica-

tion and that illegal employees of Miller &

Long are victims who have been and are

being exploited. They are being exploited

not only for the nancial benet of Miller

& Long, but also for a much more sinister

reason. The company is using its illegal

employees precarious status to drive

down the employment opportunities of

American citizens who, in many cases,

live within eyesight of Miller & Long

construction projects. They exalt their

enslaved illegal work force in an effort to

demean and undermine the self-esteem of

the African American workforce that, by

Miller & Longs own admittance, made

up a large part of their employees until

the early 1980s. They would have us

believe that African American citizens

inexplicably became less productive, less

family orientated and less skilled since the

1980s. When we visit the homes of our

employees, we nd that Latino workers

have much more family support, more

intact families, than African American

workers said Myles Gladstone, vice

president for human resources at Miller

& Long. When it comes to African

American workers, retention is a huge

problem, and part of the reason is a lack

of support.

Of course it is a coincidence that

Mr. Gladstone, in 1981, was a Spanish

teacher who became a translator for Miller

& Long because, according to company

president Nicholas G. Paleologos, We

could see the way our industry was

headed or to be more explicit, the way

Miller & Long was headed in the indus-

try. It is glaringly obvious that Miller &

AMERICAN CITIzENS HAVE AbIRTHRIgHT TO bE OEREDjObS IN AMERICA THAT PAYA LIVINg WAgE, HAVE SAEWORkINg CONDITIONS, AREPROTECTED ROM DISCRIMINA-

TION AND MOST IMPORTANTLY,HAVE ALL THE PROTECTIONS OTHE U.S. CONSTITUTION.

ediTorial contd next page


Long prefers desperate illegal work

ers from El Salvador, who will work

unquestioningly. Is it any wonde

that a Washington Postreporter woul

report, a vanload of Latinos pulls up

to a jobsite. Only one speaks Englis

and serves as a translator. They woras a team with near reckless abandon

hardly stopping for lunch. Before long

they are earning overtime pay. A

problem with this observation is wha

if Miller & Long doesnt pay overtim

to its illegal workforce? What will th

workers do? Call the Immigratio

I HAVE bEEN PERSONALLY INVOLVED IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

OR OVER 35 YEARS AND IN ALL THAT TIME, NEITHER LASER OR I

EVER HAVE COME CLOSE TO INDINg SUCH A MORALLY CORRUPT

AND UNSCRUPULOUS CONTRACTINg COMPANY AS MILLER & LONg

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION AND ITS VARIOUS IDENTITIES.


15/16

and Naturalization Service if they are not

paid?

Miller & Long, Mr. Gladstone and

their surrogates, in an unconscionable useof the so called free press and highly paid

lobbyists, are erroneously promoting the

debunked myth that African American

workers are lazy, undependable, illiterate

and not worth hiring in their own neigh-

borhoods. Of course the fact that Miller

& Longs human resource director has to

speak Spanish and almost every Miller &

Long crew has to have a Spanish interpreter

to direct the workers, who obviously dont

speak, read or write English, is of no con-cern to the company. Simply put, speaking

English on a dangerous construction site is

a matter of safety, which may explain the

deaths, accidents and injuries on Miller &

Long job sites.

The truth about Miller & Long is, they

will say or do anything and everything to

get and keep a cheap subservient workforce

without any regard for American citizens,

and/or the cost in the further suppression of

the economically depressed, highly unem-ployed English speaking African American

communities where most Miller & Long

job sites are located. Mr. Gladstone un-

abashedly brags about all its humanitar-

ian aid trips to El Salvador which in

LASERs opinion is a guise for recruiting

more subservient illegal labor while at

the same time, in the same articles, derides

the same African American families that

enabled Miller & Long to build and stay

in business for their rst 35 years.What is surprising is that many con-

struction management rms, developers

and businesses turn a blind eye to the

despicable actions of Miller & Longs

voluminous safety problems, litigation

and illegal work force. Wouldnt many

employers like to have a cheap, subservient

work force that, for all intents and purpos-

es, has no legal rights? Unfortunately,

the answer to this question is yes, but

LASER and I believe that most Ameri-

can businesses will repudiate Miller &Longs inherently immoral and illegal

business model.

The strangest part of this sordid

affair is that they have been acting in

this manner right under the noses, if not

with the blessings of the President of the

United States, the U.S. Congress and the

their families and migrate to the U.S

The company does damage to honest

responsible competitors who employ

American citizens less and less in theconcrete industry because of Miller &

Longs ability to operate illegally and

with impunity, within view of the White

House and Congress.

LASER and I both believe tha

American citizens and legal immigrants

have a birthright to be offered jobs in

SPEAkINg ENgLISH ON A DANgEROUS

CONSTRUCTION SITE IS A MATTER O SAETYentire political establishment. That is

not to mention the jobs Miller & Long

did with their illegal workforce for the

U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, Justice

Training Center, the U.S. Department

of Transportation, the U.S. Food and

Drug Administration, and ironically,

the IRS Headquarters, the Pentagon

Athletic Center, the Pentagon FederalCredit Union, the E. Barret Prettyman

Courthouse, the United States Patent

and Trademark Ofce, the United States

Mint Headquarters and the United

States Supreme Court Building, just to

name a few brazen examples of Miller

& Longs unwittingly or purposely

blind government accomplices.

This would be a ludicrous situation

if it werent for the serious damages that

Miller & Long has done and continuesto do to the African American workers

and the communities that helped make

Miller & Long the largest concrete

contractor in the country. Miller and

Long does damage to some of the

highest unemployed African Ameri-

can communities in our country when

they entice illegal immigrants to leave

America that pay a living wage, have

safe working conditions, are protected

from discrimination, and most impor-

tantly, have all the protections of the

United States Constitution.

Illegal immigrants are not the prob

lem in America. The problem is compa

nies such as Miller & Long that have no

afnity to their country, community andfellow citizens. Miller & Long under-

mines all aspects of a fair marketplace

and in doing this; thumb their noses at

the United States of America, while

simultaneously exploiting the hopes

and dreams of poor desperate illega

immigrants.

LASER will be doing its best to

ensure that all responsible businesses

and elected ofcials are made aware of

this cancerous growth in the constructionindustry that Miller & Long is spread-

ing. Who can question the fact tha

Miller & Long is cmpy wtht

ctry?

_____________________________

J l. W

psi LaSer, I.

ei The Contractors Critic

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laser, inc.

The information contained in Th Ctrctrs Crtc does not reect a complete history of the business practices of Miller & Long Concrete Construction,

Inc. and/or its related companies. LASER is publishing information that contractors do not and

will not publish about themselves. LASER has relied on the public record to present this information to the public in an effort

to promote safety, productivity, honesty, and environmental compliance in the construction industry.

Miller & Long Concrete Construction, Inc. has been given the opportunity to review this material for errors and inaccuracies.

As of publication, Miller & Long Concrete Construction, Inc. has not made any specic suggestions or refuted any

of the specic information in this publication.

LASER, Inc. will continue to seek and publish additional data.

For more information, please contact James Wilson at (530) 846-6352 or online at [email protected]

For past issues ofTh Ctrctrs Crtc on this company and others, please visit LASERs website at www.laser-inc.com

LiTigaTion:Rb Hys v. Mllr & L C., ic. Case #07-296; led 5-7-07. Circuit Court Arlington County, VA.ol Ttlr v. Mllr & L C. Case #10670-2004; led 6-8-04. District Court of MD, Montgomery County.Rbrt ayl Rvr v. Mllr & L C., ic. Case #0009137-00; led 12-20-00. Superior Court of District of Columbia.Stv a. Vscrr v. Mllr & L Ccrt Cstrct, ic. Case #0005414-00; led 7-20-00; Superior Court of the DC.M Y. Wlch v. Mllr d L Cmpy. Case #98-2534; led 11-5-99. Circuit Court of Fairfax Count, VA.Lrd Dls v. Jh D d/r Mllr & L Ccrt Cstrct, ic. Case #97-1080; led 11-6-97; Arlington

County Circuit Court, VA.

oSHa:Obtained through Occupational Safety and Health Administration website (osha.gov) and Freedom of Information Act requests through the U.S.

Department of Labor.

aRTiCLeS:Wrck Lds arrst f 15 illls. 1492, blog. 5-23-06. http://1492columbus.glogspot.comTh emplyr Std Bhd Hs Wrkrs. Rachel Swarns. 5-15-06. The New York Times.e dfs d mrts slvdrs. Rachel L. Swarns. El Diario de Hoy en El Salvador. 4-23-2006. http://www.elsalva-dor.com/noticias/2006/04/23/internacionales/int5.asp3 Prspctvs immrt, Frm th isd. New York Times. 4-16-06. http://www.nytimes.comWrk ethc, nt Lts, is Jb Brrr. Courtland Milloy. Washington Post. 4-12-06.Hlp Wtd s immrt Fcs ovrhl. S. Mitra Kalita and Krissah Williams. 3-27-06. Washington Post.

PaCMan. James Jones. 2-10-06. Loose Lips. Washington City Paper. http.www.washingtoncitypaper.comopprtty Kcks Hrd t Jl Jb Fr. Courtland Milloy. Washington Post.11-30-05. http://www.washingtonpost.comWrk Z; Fr Kth glv, Mk Lf aftr Prs s 24/7 Jb. Neely Tucker. 7-10-05. Washington Post.

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