Replacement parts for the failing equipment had been intentionally delayed to avoid project downtime.

Internal safety warnings had been quietly reclassified as low priority by senior managers protecting their deadline bonuses.

And the pattern did not stop at Bayview: the audit surfaced other names, on other job sites, other workers whose safety complaints had been minimized and steered toward quiet, confidential financial settlements, the same machinery of silence run again and again, wherever it was needed.

Corbin read all of it.