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1838438282 t1_iy7x5ni wrote

Unsurprisingly, Qatar has strongly disputed these figures, claiming that only 37 deaths have occurred among workers on stadium construction sites: three have been attributed to work accidents and 34 to other causes (10 of which involved men aged between 20 and 40).

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sooo which is the lie?

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SideburnSundays t1_iy895rr wrote

As if it matters which is a lie. In any 1st World Country the death toll would have been 0.

ITT people who don’t know how to compare apples to apples.

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dh1 t1_iy8koe8 wrote

That’s what I was going to say as well. Any modern country would start serious investigations if the death toll on a project exceeded 1 person.

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typing t1_iy8iazi wrote

Safety measures have a changed since the building of the Manhattan Bridge, lol

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SideburnSundays t1_iya7psr wrote

Manhattan Bridge 1909 is not equivalent to a stadium built post-2000.

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NewspaperAdditional7 t1_iy9457b wrote

I was curious about this and did some googling. In USA during 2020, about 1008 construction workers were killed in construction accidents.

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SideburnSundays t1_iya7fx5 wrote

False equivalency. Your comparing construction of one facility to construction of many facilities.

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NewspaperAdditional7 t1_iyalmhk wrote

Not saying they are equivalent. USA also has a much bigger population. But I was questioning your statement that a 1st World Country would have a death toll of 0. You may want to revise that opinion. South Korea also has over 100 deaths this year.

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dh1 t1_iyaufxf wrote

Yeah I just meant that on any single modern construction project in America, having more than one death would be pretty surprising.

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ForUrsula t1_iybhiim wrote

Not the same guy you replied to, but I still think it's a fair statement.

There's a big difference between infrastructure construction and just general construction. The amount of OH&S oversight would be several orders of magnitude larger.

I expect the vast majority of deaths would be happening at small scale construction sites, where the safety officer is "my mate John, he sometimes doesn't turn up drunk"

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AuthorizedShitPoster t1_iyadce5 wrote

The 400 figure is including other construction work such as hotels and subways. The 37 figure is only arenas.

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