Engineering Disaster That Killed 88 Workers

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]In 1907, engineers watched in horror as their warnings were ignored. The Quebec Bridge was doomed. They knew the steel couldn't handle the weight. They begged construction to stop. Corporate executives refused to listen. Profits mattered more than lives. On August 29th, workers heard the metal groaning, then screaming. 75 men plunged to their deaths as 18,000 tons of steel collapsed into the river below. But the nightmare wasn't over. Nine years later, during rebuilding, 13 more workers died in a second collapse. Corporate greed [music] had claimed 88 lives.