A timeline of racist incidents on US and Canadian construction sites | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

A noose was found on the Portland, Oregon, project where local contractor Andersen Construction was working on a building for Portland State University, Portland Community College, Oregon Health and Science University and the city of Portland. The incident is under investigation by the Portland police and a private investigator hired by Andersen.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against San Antonio, Texas-based CCC Group Inc., claiming the construction columbus oh dump truck company "fostered a columbus oh dump truck company environment rife with racist comments and discriminatory columbus oh dump truck company conditions" on a New York jobsite in 2016. The EEOC said in a statement that employees and supervisors used racial slurs and threatened Black employees with nooses on site. Additionally, the EEOC said Black workers were given more physically taxing columbus oh dump truck company than their White counterparts, such as working outdoors in harsh cold weather conditions, while others worked inside.

Two nooses were found at the Michael Garron Hospital renovation project in the East York neighborhood of Toronto. The nooses were two of four found on three Toronto jobsites in June. The incident spurred the Canadian contractor heading the project, EllisDon, to undertake new diversity training and form an internal anti-racism group. The incident is under investigation by EllisDon.

A noose found on a subcontractor's plan lockbox caused Turner Construction to shut down the $400 million Facebook data center project in Altoona, Iowa. The incident occurred on Juneteenth, a holiday celebrated in most states to commemorate the ending of slavery in the U.S. The incident is under investigation by Turner, Facebook and the Altoona Police Department, and two trade groups — the Central Iowa Building and Construction Trades Council and North America's Building Trades Unions — offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible.

A noose fashioned from drapery cord was found in a construction area at the high school near Detroit. The contractor on the project, Turner Construction, informed the school system and halted construction for the day. The incident is under investigation by local police.

A noose was discovered in one of the towers of the $4.3 billion Resorts World Las Vegas project. General contractor W.A. Richardson alerted the authorities and informed all jobsite personnel, including subcontractors and union crews, that they are expected to cooperate with the investigation into who is responsible.

Johns Hopkins University announced that a rope fashioned into a noose was discovered in the Whiting School of Engineering laboratory, which is under construction on the school's Baltimore campus. After the rope was discovered, renovation columbus oh dump truck company at the facility was paused to allow for the investigation to take place and to provide time for the university to columbus oh dump truck company with the contractor to enhance its policies, training and reporting practices related to discrimination and harassment. The incident is under investigation by the university, the FBI, local authorities and general contractor Plano-Coudon LLC.

A piece of rope-shaped insulation tied to look like a noose and hung from construction columbus oh dump trucks was found on an Evansville, Wisconsin, middle school jobsite. Local contractor JP Cullen & Sons reported the incident to Evansville police and it is under investigation.

Following the four nooses found in mid-June, a noose was found at one of the light-rail stops on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT project, making it the fifth on a Toronto construction site this year. Toronto police are investigating.

New Albany, Ohio, police found "racially charged graffiti" on six portable toilets at the Facebook data center construction site. Turner Construction, contractor for the $1.7 billion project, halted construction for the week to conduct anti-bias training on-site.

Two racist incidents on this Turner jobsite led the columbus oh dump truck company to halt columbus oh dump truck company to provide anti-bias training for all workers. The incidents reportedly involved use of a racial slur as well as racist graffiti in a portable toilet. Turner said it removed the responsible individuals from the project.

California electrical subcontractor Air Systems agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle an EEOC lawsuit alleging that eight African-American employees were subjected to race discrimination while working on a construction project at Apple Park, Apple's corporate campus in Cupertino, California. The harassment from individual workers — which took place between June 2016 and September 2017 — included racist graffiti like swastikas and epithets drawn on the walls of portable toilets, as well as a noose hung at the worksite with a scrawled note containing use of the racial insults, other expletives and a lynching threat. The columbus oh dump truck company allegedly failed to act when notified by two Black employees that a White coworker had taunted them with a racial slur.

"Racially motivated damage" was discovered in an office belonging to a Black foreman on the $1.4 billion Las Vegas Convention Center expansion jobsite. General contractor Turner/Martin-Harris halted columbus oh dump truck company to conduct anti-bias training and offered a "sizable reward" for information leading to the identification of those responsible. The incident is under investigation by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the contractors.

Four Black construction workers in the escalator and elevator division of Mitsubishi Electric US filed suit against the columbus oh dump truck company for allegedly allowing supervisors to harass them with racial slurs and images (below) and discriminate against them when it came to opportunities for training, higher pay, overtime and career advancement. In addition, the plaintiffs claimed complaints they made to Mitsubishi's human resources department beginning in 2016 went largely unaddressed for years.

Specific allegations from the plaintiffs included supervisors referring to plaintiffs as "undesirables," "lazy" and with the N-word; joking about lynching; a noose placed on a barricade next to one of the plaintiff's assigned elevators; and supervisors assigning the plaintiffs to menial tasks and making them helpers to less experienced White workers.

Two more nooses were found at the Michael Garron Hospital construction site in Toronto, where two of the racist symbols were discovered earlier this summer, marking the seventh noose in Toronto found and made publicly known. EllisDon held a full-site stand down to address the project team; the firm also is providing access to counseling for any team members who need mental health support. The incident is under investigation by the Toronto Police.

Graffiti that included the N-word and "Black lives spatter" was found in a portable bathroom at a construction site in Casselberry, Florida. The incident is under investigation by Casselberry police.

At the Michael Garron Hospital construction site in Toronto, where a number of nooses had already been reported over the summer, workers discovered black ink on a washroom stall (below) reading "This site needs a N-word purge," CBC reported. The incident is under investigation by the Toronto police.