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That 25% statistic is unreferenced (or else I'd have to read all the sources to find where he got that from). It's sort of difficult to imagine it being true. B

That 25% statistic is unreferenced (or else I'd have to read all the sources to find where he got that from). It's sort of difficult to imagine it being true. Because you'd also have to factor in all the people who got decompression sickness but didn't die of it, but who couldn't work anymore—you'd think that would be even higher. I have to believe that it's to be interpreted as "of the many workers who died during this project, 25% died from decompression". Maybe I'm too skeptical, but that makes more sense to me.

j-a-a-p 3y ago
My grandfather was for a short time in the railroad construction business under Japanese leadership about 50 years after the Hudson project. I have never met him, but I can imagine he would be delighted if the death rate would just be 25%. IIRC for the Indonesian, voluntary workers the death rate was 80%. For the prisoners like my grandfather the rate was lower, simply because they started working later (and perhaps some racism from the leadership).