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Board of Public Utilities employee says he faced repeated harassment in a 10th lawsuit filed against the Kansas City, Kansas, utility. Eric Lindsey, who is Black, filed the federal lawsuit on Tuesday. He has been a carpenter for the BPU since 2012. The BPU faces several ongoing lawsuits alleging race and disability discrimination. Last year, lawsuits against the BPU were filed by an employee who alleged a coworker used the n-word, another employee who said a supervisor made “racist and sexist comments” and an employee alleging disability discrimination. Five other employees in 2022 similarly sued the Unified Government, which owns the utility company, alleging they faced racial discrimination from colleagues, hostile work environments created by supervisors or targeted investigations. A ninth lawsuit was filed earlier this month by a woman who alleged she was passed over for a job and denied other opportunities given to white coworkers. Lindsey claims that another employee allegedly admitted he was “yes, kind of” racist and another responded to a request by Lindsey to pass an equipment part by saying, “Yes‘em boss.” The same two employees also removed a

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 breaker from an electrical panel, preventing Lindsey from opening a garage door to provide ventilation when he was sanding materials, the lawsuit said. In February 2022, Lindsey was assigned to removed flooring that contained asbestos, but only found out later that asbestos was present.