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SideburnSundays t1_iya7fx5 wrote

Reply to comment by NewspaperAdditional7 in Qatar says worker deaths for World Cup 'between 400 and 500' by kittycat901

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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