![The Greatest Dam in the World": Building Hoover Dam (Teaching with Historic Places) (U.S. National Park Service) The Greatest Dam in the World": Building Hoover Dam (Teaching with Historic Places) (U.S. National Park Service)](https://www.nps.gov/articles/images/highscalers3cl.jpg?maxwidth=1300&autorotate=false)
The Greatest Dam in the World": Building Hoover Dam (Teaching with Historic Places) (U.S. National Park Service)
![TIL that of the 100+ people to die in the building of the Hoover Dam, the first and last to perish were a father and son who plummeted to their death 13 TIL that of the 100+ people to die in the building of the Hoover Dam, the first and last to perish were a father and son who plummeted to their death 13](https://external-preview.redd.it/di5FJsigJjlq4Z1TD8c3K6QiOaNQQiOo47IH5kbUgRY.jpg?auto=webp&s=eae3454a3c4bf41565d3b6f0f6d65ab6b4d22357)
TIL that of the 100+ people to die in the building of the Hoover Dam, the first and last to perish were a father and son who plummeted to their death 13
Is it true that workers who fell into the concrete during the construction of Hoover Dam are still entombed there where they fell? - Quora
Lake Mead Cruises - There are no bodies buried in the concrete of the Hoover Dam, though 112 deaths could be attributed to its construction. The first was J.G. Tierney, who drowned
![A memorial plaque, honoring the 96 workers known to have died constructing Hoover Dam, which straddles the Arizona and Nevada borders on the Colorado River | Library of Congress A memorial plaque, honoring the 96 workers known to have died constructing Hoover Dam, which straddles the Arizona and Nevada borders on the Colorado River | Library of Congress](http://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/highsm/54400/54415v.jpg)