How many people died while building the Empire State Building?
Though rumors of hundreds of people dying on the work site circulated during the time of its construction, official records state that only five workers were killed: one worker was struck by a truck; a second fell down an elevator shaft; a third was hit by a hoist; a fourth was in a blast area; and a fifth fell off a scaffold
And that after more than 7,000,000 hours of labor. Sort of makes you wonder about why we need OSHA.
Actually, the Hoover Dam was a much more impressive engineering feat than the Empire State Building. Something like 96 (not 112) people died in industrial accidents associated with the construction of the dam, though no one is actually buried or encased inside the dam.