Bowmaster: "Something like this where you've got these big buckets of concrete moving over head on a cableway--if something went wrong with that cableway, that bucket might fall and no telling how many people would be killed below.”
NARRATOR:There were accidents, and 112 men lost their lives. But that was considered a remarkably good record for a project so big. TVA workers received special training. This attention to safety paid off.
Arthur Morgan succeeded beyond anyone's expectations. And with construction well underway, Morgan would take TVA into even more challenging territory: social engineering.