Photo Courtesy Dicklyon, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 Aerial view of El Paso, Texas, with Fort Bliss visible at center, where construction of largest federal immigrant detention facility coincided with a 2025 worker fatality now central to an OSHA investigation. A fatal forklift accident during the construction of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tent detention facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, has resulted in an unresolved federal safety citation that could advance to a formal hearing if the cited employer and federal regulators do not reach a settlement. Hector Gonzalez, 38, an employee of Base International Inc., died July 21, 2025, after being struck by falling composite beams while unloading materials from a forklift at the ICE facility known as Camp East Montana, according to U.S. Safety and Health Administration records and an  April 13 report by watchdog group Public Citizen . The death occurred three days after the U.S.…