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"Nine workers died during the work." Although on-time or early and within budget, it is still a dangerous job to do. That is 0.346% of the total workforce (260
by hoppi 10y ago
"Nine workers died during the work."
Although on-time or early and within budget, it is still a dangerous job to do. That is 0.346% of the total workforce (2600).
- ojii 10y agoA better metric is probably "deaths / km" instead of % of workforce. Also, while those nine deaths are tragic, we've come a long way from the roughly 200 lives the old 15km tunnel took.
- pigged 10y agoThe project took 17 years. So more like 0.02% per year.
- Kristine1975 10y agoComparison with other tunnels: http://interaktiv.tagesanzeiger.ch/2016/gotthard-system/imgs/minigraphs_mineure.png http://interaktiv.tagesanzeiger.ch/2016/gotthard-system/imgs... And a German article about the nine people who died: http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/die-toten-arbeiter-vom-gotthard/story/28467385 http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/die-toten-arbei...
- shawabawa3 10y ago0.346% of the population over 17 years. Wouldn't be surprised if it was less than the national average death rate
- groupmonoid 10y agoYou're right. Death rate is about 0.8%, to be compared to 0.02% here (40 times less). Of course, this does not account for the difference in the age distribution of workers vs the national population.
- izzydata 10y agoI found that whole music performance from the article very weird. It seemed disrespectful to all of the people that actually worked and supposedly died on this project.