“You don’t touch a casino in this state,” said Don Barker, the former safety director of Boyd Gaming. A willful finding could have exposed Boyd to civil suits, normally prevented by workers compensation law. In a private settlement conference, Bremner, administrator of the Nevada Division of Industrial Relations, knocked the finding down to “serious” rather than “willful,” according to state records. Roger Bremner, for a less severe finding. But when the investigators tried to formally cite the company after the two men’s deaths, Boyd attorneys pressed two political appointees overseeing Nevada OSHA, Mendy Elliott and D.
