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Re:Questions by tzs on Sunday September 30, 2018 @01:50PM (#18107296)
Death rates are probably better than absolute number of deaths for comparison. Here are death rates per 1000 workers of some well known construction projects:

  80    Transcontinental Railroad
  80    Suez Canal
  50    Brooklyn Bridge
  17.46 World Trade Center
   6.4  Sydney Harbor Bridge
   4.47 Hoover Dam
   3.37 San Francisco Bay Bridge
   3.33 Eiffel Tower
   2.67 Titanic
   2.5  Sears Tower
   1.47 Empire State Building
   1.17 Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
   0.75 City Center Las Vegas
   0    Chrysler Building
Topping all of those by a large amount are the Panama Canal and the Burma-Siam railway, which I did not include because I don't have numbers--they are literally off the chart. I mean that literally. On the bar chart I'm getting the numbers from [1] the bars for those are so big they are clipped and the number is not visible.

[1] https://www.forconstructionpros.com/blogs/construction-toolb...

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Re:Questions by ____a on Sunday September 30, 2018 @02:01PM (#18107363)
Are you on mobile? Or something else might be breaking formatting for you. The chart linked does have numbers for the Panama Canal (408.12) and Burma-Siam Railway (385.45).
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Re:Questions by travisjungroth on Sunday September 30, 2018 @02:54PM (#18107717)
40% of workers died building the Panama Canal? That's nuts.
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Re:Questions by pm90 on Sunday September 30, 2018 @03:33PM (#18107910)
The history of the canal itself is pretty interesting. It was an effort started by the French, who lost too many workers to tropical diseases (specifically malaria). Then the Americans took over, and one of the reasons they succeeded was they made sure to take preventative measures to protect workers from malaria.
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Re:Questions by tzs on Sunday September 30, 2018 @02:23PM (#18107501)
No, I'm on Firefox 63.0b9 on MacOS.

Looks like I zoomed in (cmd-+) a few times to make the numbers more readable, and went past what the page's CSS could handle.

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