Editing Snowy Mountains Scheme (section)

===Safety===

The Scheme used a number of innovative approaches to many things during its construction. Notably, all vehicles driven on all parts of the scheme were required to be fitted with seatbelts for driver and front seat passenger; and that these seatbelts were required to be used.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aso.gov.au/titles/sponsored-films/snowy-hydro-safety/clip3/|title = Snowy Hydro – Safety on the Snowy Scheme}}</ref>

On 16 April 1958, an elevator at Tumut 1 underground power station near Cabramurra fell about 400 feet when the cable broke, killing 4 Italian employees of a French construction firm.<ref>{{cite news|title=4 Killed Near Cabramurra |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |date=17 April 1958 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/128813314}}</ref>

The official death toll during construction was 121.<ref>[https://www.naa.gov.au/home/snowy-mountains-hydro-electric-scheme Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme], [[National Archives of Australia]]</ref>