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Can a teen s on-site death change Nashville s construction standards? Some councilmembers hope so
Cassandra Stephenson, Nashville Tennessean
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Jennifer Enamorado talks about her brother, Gustavo Enrique Ramirez, who died at 16 after falling 11 stories while working at a Nashville construction site. Enamorado helped introduce the Get It Right bill to raise construction standards at Metro projects in Nashville s Public Square on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
Metro councilmembers and workers advocates announced a new bill to raise standards and oversight for Metro construction projects on Tuesday, the day that would have been Gustavo Enrique Ramirez s 17th birthday.
His sister Jennifer Enamorado joined councilmembers and community advocates supporting the Get It Right bill in Nashville s Public Square Tuesday. Ramirez was not the first construction death in Nashville in 2020, she said. He was not the last. ....

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