Now the Americans were experiencing what French had experienced. They also had problems with illnesses such as malaria and yellow fever. A lot of people were dying because of the many accidents that happened during the construction. People didn’t use good enough rules of safety to protect themselves. There were a lot of safety hazards on the construction area. In 1905 a person named John Stevens took over the construction area as a chief engineer. He immediately improved the workflow by hiring west Indian laborers and more. He started using things like swinging boom to lift pieced of the railroad to bring the rocks that were mined out. He also saw the danger of landslide and convinced the President Roosevelt to lock the
Now the Americans were experiencing what French had experienced. They also had problems with illnesses such as malaria and yellow fever. A lot of people were dying because of the many accidents that happened during the construction. People didn’t use good enough rules of safety to protect themselves. There were a lot of safety hazards on the construction area. In 1905 a person named John Stevens took over the construction area as a chief engineer. He immediately improved the workflow by hiring west Indian laborers and more. He started using things like swinging boom to lift pieced of the railroad to bring the rocks that were mined out. He also saw the danger of landslide and convinced the President Roosevelt to lock the