America's Most Dangerous Jobs

[Occam's Banana]

h/t Becky Akers: http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/public-service-is-among-the-safest-work-alas/

http://money.cnn.com/gallery/pf/jobs/2013/08/22/dangerous-jobs/index.html

The ten most dangerous jobs in America
(last year's fatalities per 100,000 workers)

Fatalities ​

Loggers

Fishermen

Airplane Pilots

Roofers

Ironworkers

Sanitation Workers

Power Linesmen

Truckers

Farmers/Ranchers

Construction Workers

[TD="align: center"] Occupation [/TD]

[TD="align: center"]127.8[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]117[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]53.4[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]40.5[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]37[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]27.1[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]23[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]22.1[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]21.3[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]17.4[/TD]

Notice that all these jobs involve useful, productive & very important work.

Notice also that cops & soldiers did not make the cut ...

 

[Icymudpuppy]

My job contains elements of several of these jobs...

The ten most dangerous jobs in America
(last year's fatalities per 100,000 workers)

Fatalities ​

Fishermen

Roofers

Sanitation Workers

Truckers

Farmers/Ranchers

Construction Workers

[TD="align: center"] Occupation [/TD]

[TR]

[TD="align: center"]117[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]40.5[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]27.1[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]22.1[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]21.3[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]17.4[/TD]

(I'm a trapper, does that count?)
(I have to climb on roofs all the time for bat, bird, and squirrel work.)
(I remove fecal matter from attics and crawlspaces. Sounds like sanitation to me.)
(I drive about 50,000 miles a year with a heavily loaded tool truck to get to my clients)
(I deal with both domesticated and wild animals)
(I fix houses so animals can't get in)

Not making cut cops & soldiers (I've done these too. Pretty dull jobs...)

 

[pcosmar]

I have done a few of those..
And oddly enough Bodyman is not on the list. There are a hundred ways to fuck yourself up every day.

You work with jagged, torn and bent metal. Tools include various cutters, welders, grinders. as well as hydraulic tools that pull and push with multiple tons of energy.
You generally are bare handed (gloves get in the way)
I have scars,, but still have all my fingers.

And in working in several different shops over the years,, I have never known any quality shop to piss test.

Several had regular "Safety Breaks". A dangerous work environment,, and a safe one at the same time.

 

[VIDEODROME]

Tried trucking for a few years. A freakin Chicago wind storm blew my whole rig over.

 

[Acala]

I have done a few of those..
And oddly enough Bodyman is not on the list. There are a hundred ways to fuck yourself up every day.

You work with jagged, torn and bent metal. Tools include various cutters, welders, grinders. as well as hydraulic tools that pull and push with multiple tons of energy.
You generally are bare handed (gloves get in the way)
I have scars,, but still have all my fingers.

And in working in several different shops over the years,, I have never known any quality shop to piss test.

Several had regular "Safety Breaks". A dangerous work environment,, and a safe one at the same time.

Yeah. Fucking sheet metal. And rusted bolts. Not fun.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Never done "Ironwork" but have done quite a bit of welding. It's dangerous as the article suggests, but fun and rewarding.

 

[fr33]

 

[pcosmar]

Yeah. Fucking sheet metal. And rusted bolts. Not fun.

A hundred ways,,every day. Just not blowing yourself up is a constant.

 

[James Madison]

You can make serious money if you fish the right areas...of course, those are the most dangerous.

 

[mad cow]

I think that is the second time I have seen Fishermen not top the list in the 40+ years I was one.

The other time it was also loggers who beat us.

 

[Qdog]

Im not usually one to jump on the anti-abortion soapbox.... but these numbers jumped out at me, and I had to do a little research: http://www.abort73.com/abortion/abortion_and_race/

According to the numbers, being fetus in your mother's womb is more than 10 times as dangerous than being a logger. (138 abortions per 1,000 births). And being a black fetus is about 40 times as dangerous (501 abortions per 1000 births). This is pretty mind boggling to me.

 

[Danke]

Im not usually one to jump on the anti-abortion soapbox.... but these numbers jumped out at me, and I had to do a little research: http://www.abort73.com/abortion/abortion_and_race/

According to the numbers, being fetus in your mother's womb is more than 10 times as dangerous than being a logger. (138 abortions per 1,000 births). And being a black fetus is about 40 times as dangerous (501 abortions per 1000 births). This is pretty mind boggling to me.

Is being a fetus a job?

I'm always surprise mob hitman never makes the list.

 

[fr33]

Should those that work these 10 professions demand bullet-proof vests and armored vehicles since the cops and military get them even though they don't face as much danger?

 

[mad cow]

Should those that work these 10 professions demand bullet-proof vests and armored vehicles since the cops and military get them even though they don't face as much danger?

I think I can speak for those in the Fishing Industry and say to OSHA,please,please continue ignoring our industry.We don't want your "help".We already get too much "help" from the Coast Guard.

 

[fr33]

I think I can speak for those in the Fishing Industry and say to OSHA,please,please continue ignoring our industry.We don't want your "help".We already get too much "help" from the Coast Guard.

Yeah good point. It's still worth rubbing in the face of the uniform/badge worshipers when they cry about how dangerous the mercenaries' jobs are.

 

[eduardo89]

Where does international investment banker fit in? I don't want to be in a dangerous career...

 

[mad cow]

Where does international investment banker fit in? I don't want to be in a dangerous career...

That would depend on the strength of the fiat money in the country you were a banker in over the next 40 years or so,or however long your career might last.

I think that there is a fair chance,in a few countries,that a few of them won't be hanged from lampposts in the coming decades.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I think I can speak for those in the Fishing Industry and say to OSHA,please,please continue ignoring our industry.We don't want your "help".We already get too much "help" from the Coast Guard.

Thankfully (perhaps), this was adjudicated in a trial a few years back.

If it is a "vessel" of any kind, USCG has regulatory authority, not OSHA.

Problem now is all commercial vessels are being dragged into IMO compliance, which is ten times worse.

It will find its way to fishing vessels in the next ten years or so.