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During the 20th century, American workers engaged in dangerous construction work to build the nation's iconic infrastructure and city scapes, often laboring with minimal or no safety equipment and facing high rates of injury and fatality. Their work, frequently driven by economic necessity, shaped the modern American landscape at a significant human cost.

From song The Highwaymen (Jimmy Webb)
I was a dam builder.
Across the river deep and wide
Where steel and water did collide
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below
They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound
But I am still around
I'll always be around
And around and around and around and around.