The Shinkansen services claim zero passenger fatalities (and close to zero passenger injuries, on account of a recent mishap). If you carefully parse the langua

The Shinkansen services claim zero passenger fatalities (and close to zero passenger injuries, on account of a recent mishap). If you carefully parse the language of these claims, taking note to discount those ineptly rephrasing official claims, these statistics usually do not include workers. Here's a paper discussing how those trains are cleaned: https://siliconflatirons.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Trouble-at-Tessei-Case.pdf https://siliconflatirons.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Trou... Exhibit 10, page 11 shows the number of employee accidents for the years 2001-2005. No year had zero. 2004 and 2005 were as high as 18 employee accidents. Here's a fatality from just last year during tunnel construction for a maglev line: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/10/29/national/jr-tunnel-death/ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/10/29/national/jr-tun...