[kragen]

14 deaths out of ≈3500 workers over 18 months is a death rate of 270 per 100_000 per year, or a life expectancy of 380 years

this is about ten times the average death rate for young people today but it still doesn't seem like an unacceptably dangerous workplace environment in the sense that if you worked in an environment that dangerous all your working life you'd still make it to retirement age with about 90% probability

that's a similar level of risk to smoking cigarettes, but of course you can't make a living smoking cigarettes, so i think skyscraper construction is somewhat more morally defensible

we aren't talking about the mines of potosí or something here