![An investigation by ProPublica and PBS “Frontline” shows that the convenience of mobile phones has come at a hefty price.
Between 2003 and 2011, 50 climbers died working on cell sites, more than half of the nearly 100 who were killed on communications towers.
Yet cell phone carriers’ connection to tower climbing deaths has remained invisible. They outsource this dangerous work to subcontractors, a practice increasingly common in risky businesses from coal mining to trucking to nuclear waste removal.
If you look up the major cell carriers in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s database of workplace accident investigations, you will not find a single tower climber fatality listed.
[Photo: Danny Moloshok / Reuters]
PROPUBLICA: The men who died to bring cell phones 3G network](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4fmiall921qmaoalo1_1280.jpg)
An investigation by ProPublica and PBS “Frontline” shows that the convenience of mobile phones has come at a hefty price.
Between 2003 and 2011, 50 climbers died working on cell sites, more than half of the nearly 100 who were killed on communications towers.
Yet cell phone carriers’ connection to tower climbing deaths has remained invisible. They outsource this dangerous work to subcontractors, a practice increasingly common in risky businesses from coal mining to trucking to nuclear waste removal.
If you look up the major cell carriers in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s database of workplace accident investigations, you will not find a single tower climber fatality listed.
[Photo: Danny Moloshok / Reuters]
PROPUBLICA: The men who died to bring cell phones 3G network
