Brothers Alejandro and Juan Simental are working on the construction of a new toll road in Houston, Texas. They are part of a crew employed by Choctaw Erectors, a steel construction company subcontracted for the project. The brothers work long and demanding shifts, often overnight, seven days a week.
The sun was sinking toward the horizon when brothers Alejandro and Juan Simental drove their pickup less than 10 minutes from a Motel 6 to their job site: a pricey new toll road they were helping to build alongside busy State Highway 288. A week before, they had left their home in Arlington to work in the flat southern edge of Houston ’s suburbs, the bustling intersection of State Highway 288 (SH 288) and Beltway 8.
That’s where their employer, Choctaw Erectors, a steel construction company, was subcontracted to help build the Texas Department of Transportation’s latest privately operated tollway. They shared their no-frills motel room with a coworker, sleeping only a few hours just to get up and work again. Their shifts were punishing—nine to 12 hours, often overnight, seven days a week. But that evening, as the Houston sky gradually dimmed to a streetlight-stained dark gray, Alejandro, Juan, and five others on their crew established a rhyth
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