In 1883, in New York City, the Brooklyn Bridge was opened, after a few years of construction, $15 million, and 20 lives lost. (Some accounts say "hundreds" but I haven't found authoritative sources for that.)

In 1958, in Vancouver, B.C., 27 workers lost their life in the collapse of the under-construction Second Narrows Crossing, now renamed Ironworkers Memorial (terrifying when one is crossing on a bike, 'cause when they say "narrow" they mean it!!!). That was caused by a miscalculation.

We owe all of the infrastructures we use every day to the lives of many people who died building them. (Mind you, many many many more die using them, in their cars.) We could also talk about the many, many lost lives in the harvest of timber, which provide us with the wood and paper we use all the time without noticing. (Forest jobs are still the most dangerous out there.) I don't want to be fatalistic, but I'm afraid that industrialization has a cost, and that the same groups of people over time are going to keep on paying for it. Of course, non-industrialization also has a cost (try getting to the hospital without a decently-paved road, in our current cities).

But there are definitely people out there who profit from those lost lives......... (whether they like to think about it or not)