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NewspaperAdditional7 t1_iy9457b wrote

Reply to comment by SideburnSundays in Qatar says worker deaths for World Cup 'between 400 and 500' by kittycat901

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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