BLOWING THE TRUCK WHISTLE A carbon dioxide delivery driver’s long journey to expose issues that he says put his safety and integrity at risk By David Dayen
ADDITIONAL REPORTING FROM JEFFREY DEWEY, ISABELLE GIUS, AND ALEX WEATHERHEAD
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PHOTOGRAPH BY PABLO ROBLES
Globe, Arizona, is an old mining town in Gila County, about 90 miles east of Phoenix, dotted with canyons and gorges and 33 bridges, most constructed in or before the 1960s. Last July, Cyrus Coron, a thin, bleachblond man with orange-tinted wraparound sunglasses, was about to pilot his Airgas National Carbonation (ANC) bulk gas truck onto a particularly skinny overpass, running downhill on an 8 percent grade. As he dropped in, a red light in the shape of an engine lit up on the dashboard, with one word superimposed on it: STOP. When that f lashed, drivers knew the truck would soon stall. The problem was a faulty engine sensor that would often trip in winding hills and valleys, forcing a restart 40 PROSPECT.ORG JUNE 2022
