America’s Deadliest Jobs
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America’s Main Streeters want revenge on Wall Street for the financial meltdown and recession and mortgage foreclosures and lost life savings. That hardly makes fields like finance and insurance hazardous to be in, though. You’re much, much likelier to get killed in other lines of work.
Recently released Department of Labor data show that fishermen (and fisherwomen) and other workers in fishing-related professions were the most likely to die on the job in 2008. Of 39,000 fishing workers in the nation, 50 were killed, a rate of 128.9 per 100,000 full-time workers. Rough seas, unpredictable deadly weather and isolation during emergencies all make the job more unsafe than any other. It’s no wonder that the industry’s perils have given rise to a popular documentary TV series, “Deadliest Catch,” and a best-selling book and hit Hollywood film, “The Perfect Storm.”
The construction industry suffered the largest number of deaths. Its fatality rate per 100,000 full-time workers was only 9.6, less than a 10th of that of people in fishing, but that added up to 969 deaths in 2008, no less than 19.1% of all U.S. workplace fatalities.
What about those Wall Streeters? People in finance and insurance actually had the lowest fatality rate of any occupation — 0.3 deaths per 100,000 full-time workers, or just 24 people across the nation.
Top 5 Deadliest Jobs
Fishers and related fishing workers
Logging workers
Aircraft pilots and flight engineers
Structural iron and steel workers
Farmers and ranchers
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