![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
![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)
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
![Buffeted by High Winds and Setbacks, a Bypass Is Making History Near Hoover Dam | 2009-12-02 | ENR | Engineering News-Record Buffeted by High Winds and Setbacks, a Bypass Is Making History Near Hoover Dam | 2009-12-02 | ENR | Engineering News-Record](https://www.enr.com/ext/resources/archives/infrastructure/transportation/2009/extras/1202/images/02.jpg)