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If each death results in a $10M lawsuit (which is a far underestimate), only 60 or so people could have died during the construction of the Hoover Dam. But as a
by dymk 7y ago
If each death results in a $10M lawsuit (which is a far underestimate), only 60 or so people could have died during the construction of the Hoover Dam. But as another comment points out, 96 people died.
- noobermin 7y agoI somehow doubt the reason this isn't getting funded is deaths of workers.
- masonic 7y agoLife was cheap during the Depression. I doubt that Six Companies even compensated survivors six figures for workplace deaths. Ironically, the son of the first construction worker to die on the job was the last to die on the job.