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Just the other day there was a huge fire in Gothenburg: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-68279358

There was also an elevator in a building site that fell, killing all 5 workers in Stockholm: https://www.thelocal.se/20231213/what-caused-construction-el...

What's going on with construction sites in the Nordics? Have they forgotten how to do things safely?

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I don’t know about Denmark, but on the north side of the Sound, all construction contracts seem to go to chains of subcontractors fourteen levels deep, where minor details like workplace safety get lost around level five or so, and the fellows who get to do the actual work in the end are all from Elbonia and speak no Swedish.

Press release from the Work Environment Authority (2021, in Swedish, but Google Translate handles it nicely): https://www.av.se/press/farlig-arbetsmiljo-och-olaglig-arbet...

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