The 10 Deadliest Machines in Construction History

The deadliest machine in the history of American construction never crushed anyone. It worked exactly the way the engineers intended, and it still crippled the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge and killed hundreds more beneath the rivers of New York. From the rollover that flattened bulldozer operators for sixty years, to the cofferdam that drowned fourteen men in a single night, to the steam boiler that hurled sixteen thousand pounds of steel twelve hundred feet through the air, these are the ten machines that built the modern world and quietly killed the men who ran them. Every documentary takes days of research. You can help us keep going by leaving a small donation, just click the link and support us: https://buymeacoffee.com/Construction... We count these down from number ten to number one, the cable blade crawler tractor, the cofferdam, the guy derrick, the concrete cableway and bucket, the hand and mule dam, the high steel riveting gang, the drill and blast tunnel jumbo, the steam boiler, the nitroglycerin and rock drill of the Hoosac Tunnel, and the pneumatic caisson that gave a generation of sandhogs the bends. Real names, real death tolls, and the safety codes that were written in their blood. No sensational myths, just the machines and the men. 00:00 The machine that killed without touching anyone 04:10 The cofferdam that drowned fourteen men 10:00 The concrete buckets over the Grand Coulee Dam 18:26 High steel and the riveting gangs 24:14 The steam boiler that exploded like a bomb 30:13 The pneumatic caisson and the bends Sources and further reading include the American Society of Civil Engineers landmark records, the Bureau of Reclamation Grand Coulee worker records, the McCullough history of the Brooklyn Bridge, the Hartford Steam Boiler archive, and contemporary newspaper accounts. Archival images are used under fair use for historical and educational commentary. If you want more of the machines and disasters that built America, subscribe here:    / @constructionlegends   #construction #engineering #history #heavyequipment #documentary #industrialhistory #bridges #dams #tunnels #constructionhistory