Hawk’s Nest: The Deadliest Industrial Disaster You’ve Never Heard Of
In 1930, near the town of Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, 3,000 men worked in ten-hour shifts drilling through sandstone to construct the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel. Within five years, more than 750 of those men would die of a deadly and preventable disease.
Martin Goffeney
January 26, 2024
