![A memorial plaque, honoring the 96 workers known to have died constructing Hoover Dam, which straddles the Arizona and Nevada borders on the Colorado River | Library of Congress A memorial plaque, honoring the 96 workers known to have died constructing Hoover Dam, which straddles the Arizona and Nevada borders on the Colorado River | Library of Congress](http://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/highsm/54400/54415v.jpg)
A memorial plaque, honoring the 96 workers known to have died constructing Hoover Dam, which straddles the Arizona and Nevada borders on the Colorado River | Library of Congress
![TIL that of the 100+ people to die in the building of the Hoover Dam, the first and last to perish were a father and son who plummeted to their death 13 TIL that of the 100+ people to die in the building of the Hoover Dam, the first and last to perish were a father and son who plummeted to their death 13](https://external-preview.redd.it/di5FJsigJjlq4Z1TD8c3K6QiOaNQQiOo47IH5kbUgRY.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b43bf804e1d561284aadf910e6610cada1bb40a1)
TIL that of the 100+ people to die in the building of the Hoover Dam, the first and last to perish were a father and son who plummeted to their death 13
![Father and son died on the same day, 14 years apart while working on Hoover Dam | Local Las Vegas | Local Father and son died on the same day, 14 years apart while working on Hoover Dam | Local Las Vegas | Local](https://www.reviewjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/7586759_web1_damupstream.jpg?w=640)
Father and son died on the same day, 14 years apart while working on Hoover Dam | Local Las Vegas | Local
![The Greatest Dam in the World": Building Hoover Dam (Teaching with Historic Places) (U.S. National Park Service) The Greatest Dam in the World": Building Hoover Dam (Teaching with Historic Places) (U.S. National Park Service)](https://www.nps.gov/articles/images/highscalers3cl.jpg?maxwidth=1300&autorotate=false)
The Greatest Dam in the World": Building Hoover Dam (Teaching with Historic Places) (U.S. National Park Service)
![On Dec. 20, 1935, Patrick Tierney fell to his death from one of these intake towers on the Arizona side of Hoover Dam, pictured here on Dec. 13. His death is last On Dec. 20, 1935, Patrick Tierney fell to his death from one of these intake towers on the Arizona side of Hoover Dam, pictured here on Dec. 13. His death is last](https://www.reviewjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/7586759_web1_img_7456.jpg)