During the construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930's, a startling number of workmen died. However, the myth of the concrete pour too important to halt to fish out their bodies is just that — a myth.
Although a startling number of workmen were killed in the construction of Hoover Dam , none are entombed in the structure. The myth of the concrete pour too important to halt to fish out a mere body is just that, a myth.
The dam contains 4,400,000 cubic yards of concrete. It was poured in sections of roughly a thousand cubic yards at a time, each of these slabs being allowed to set before the next was added. The ‘cold joints’ created by this sectioning were very deliberately factored into the engineering plans of the structure. Each segment took hours to pour, with the wet concrete arriving in buckets containing roughly eight yards of concrete each.
Possibly rumors about bodies left in Hoover Dam originated with memories of a Montana dam construction tragedy being attributed to the larger, more famous structure in Nevada. Rumors do tend to migrate towards the most recognizable entry in any field, so it can be postulated that gruesome facts about the fatal slide at the Fort Peck Dam were later recalled as having to do with the Hoover Dam. Both dams are, after all, in the same part of the country and were built around the same time.
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