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by rand49an 1530 days ago
In comparable projects, the London Olympics in 2012 had 0 construction deaths associated and in more recent years, even the highest recorded count was 74 in Sochi, Russia.
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Even 74 in Sochi sounds mind blowing.

I can't imagine that many people dying on an engineering project anywhere else in Europe, unless perhaps there was a major incident like a tunnel collapse. But that would be headline news around the world.

It was rightly newsworthy, and investigated, that one person died during the construction of the Queensferry Crossing.
You're perpetuating the mistake in the title.

As I understand the GP, the point is that during the construction of the any sporting facilities, some workers will have died but it won't have been directly related to the work they did.

In Qatar, that number is >6500. In the UK, we don't know the number.

Yes we do.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/weekly-all-cause-mo...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26595089/

Same statistics are available in the UK, although immigrant-specific numbers aren’t updated on a weekly basis.

Yeah, I was going to say; any construction deaths are frontpage news here. 6500 for a country the size of a shoe is insane, directly related to the the worldcup or not.
These aren't construction deaths. This number includes all causes of death for all 2+ million immigrant workers in Qatar.