Tony Kovaleski is the contact7 Chief Investigative Reporter.
DENVER — Nearly 200 bus and rail operators with the Regional Transportation District received paid time off due to drug exposure during a four-month period this year.Denver7 Investigates obtained data through an open records request for RTD operator drug exposure claims, money paid out for medical expenses, time-off granted to drivers per a union agreement in January and delays resulting from relief.
“Drivers call in every day,” one veteran operator told a Denver7 Investigates hidden camera. The driver did not know he was on camera when making comments. “People get on the train, they smoke fentanyl... It’s all over.” “Oh we get sick every day. Drivers get sick, drivers call in, drivers call in sick,” the veteran operator said. “Nothing has been done about it. We complain over and over... Very, very frustrating.”
Research from the Colorado Department of Health and Environment states “airborne and dermal exposure to fentanyl does not represent a realistic threat to safety.” Also the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Center published a paper regarding myths about fentanyl. One myth listed is that being near fentanyl causes “serious effects.”
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