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Compare it to the deadliest job category in the US, transportation workers, which sits “14.6 fatalities per 100,000 FTE workers” or ~1.5k/10M/year https://www.b

by Retric 2y ago

Compare it to the deadliest job category in the US, transportation workers, which sits “14.6 fatalities per 100,000 FTE workers” or ~1.5k/10M/year https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm Construction is #2 on that list. So 3k per year is for 10M workers is twice as deadly for a less dangerous profession, but with worse safety standards, poor treatment, and inherent risks from extreme heat it doesn’t actually sound unrealistic.

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mmmore 2y ago
Not to justify Saudi Arabian conditions, but if you're more granular than I assume that release is, there are a few professions in the US that have higher yearly fatality rates than 3k/10M = 30/100k including roofers, fishing/hunting, and aircraft pilots. "Helpers in construction trades" have a fatality rate of nearly 40/100k.[1] Now I don't think 10M is the correct denominator. It's unlikely all those workers are in construction where a lot of the deaths are presumably concentrated. According to this[2], there were around 4.4M foreign construction workers in 2016. 3k/5M (assuming numbers have increased) is 60/100k, so around as dangerous as the most dangerous professions in the US. But this also doesn't account for the alleged missing. [1] https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries/civilian-occupations-with-high-fatal-work-injury-rates.htm https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-inju... [2] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/140/1/012097/pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/140/1/0...
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yread 2y ago
There are a lot deadlier jobs than transportation worker: https://www.invictuslawpc.com/most-dangerous-jobs-osha/ https://www.invictuslawpc.com/most-dangerous-jobs-osha/ > Fishing and Hunting Workers > Fatal injury rate: 132.1 per 100,000 workers. Luckily, not that many people work as hunters/fisherman
rsynnott 2y ago
... Wait, are you assuming that all 10 million immigrants work on this project? That cannot possibly be true.
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mmmore 2y ago

Not to justify Saudi Arabian conditions, but if you're more granular than I assume that release is, there are a few professions in the US that have higher yearly fatality rates than 3k/10M = 30/100k including roofers, fishing/hunting, and aircraft pilots. "Helpers in construction trades" have a fatality rate of nearly 40/100k.[1] Now I don't think 10M is the correct denominator. It's unlikely all those workers are in construction where a lot of the deaths are presumably concentrated. According to this[2], there were around 4.4M foreign construction workers in 2016. 3k/5M (assuming numbers have increased) is 60/100k, so around as dangerous as the most dangerous professions in the US. But this also doesn't account for the alleged missing. [1] https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries/civilian-occupations-with-high-fatal-work-injury-rates.htm https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-inju... [2] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/140/1/012097/pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/140/1/0...

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yread 2y ago

There are a lot deadlier jobs than transportation worker: https://www.invictuslawpc.com/most-dangerous-jobs-osha/ https://www.invictuslawpc.com/most-dangerous-jobs-osha/ > Fishing and Hunting Workers > Fatal injury rate: 132.1 per 100,000 workers. Luckily, not that many people work as hunters/fisherman

rsynnott 2y ago

... Wait, are you assuming that all 10 million immigrants work on this project? That cannot possibly be true.

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