CONSTRUCTION DEFECT JOURNAL

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CONSTRUCTION DEFECT JOURNAL - ISSUE 242749 - SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Unpunished Racist Taunts: A Pennsylvania Harassment Case With No True 'Winner'

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Victims of racist harassment don’t always win huge damage awards or settlements.

December 4, 2023
Richard Korman - Engineering News-Record

The taunts started in the first days of Andre Pryce’s new job, camouflaged as joking. During the nine months of 2019 spent working as a drill rig hand, mostly in the woods in western Pennsylvania, for a contractor that also performs much construction-related drilling, he said coworkers filled his ears with racist insults.

Reprinted courtesy of Richard Korman, Engineering News-Record

Mr. Korman may be contacted at kormanr@enr.com

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