America's 10 dangerous jobs.

[ShunnyBun]

10 sectors with the highest fatal work injury rates (per 100,000 full-time workers):

1. Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
Fatal work injury rate: 24.4
Number of fatal work injuries: 557

2. Mining
Fatal work injury rate: 15.8
Number of fatal work injuries: 154

3. Transportation and warehousing
Fatal work injury rate: 15.0
Number of fatal work injuries: 733

4. Construction
Fatal work injury rate: 8.9
Number of fatal work injuries: 721

5. Wholesale trade
Fatal work injury rate: 4.9
Number of fatal work injuries: 189

6. Utilities
Fatal work injury rate: 4.2
Number of fatal work injuries: 39

7. Professional and business services
Fatal work injury rate: 2.9
Number of fatal work injuries: 424

8. Other services (e.g., equipment and machinery repairing, promoting or administering religious activities, grant-making)
Fatal work injury rate: 2.9
Number of fatal work injuries: 177

9. Government
Fatal work injury rate: 2.2
Number of fatal work injuries: 495

10. Manufacturing
Fatal work injury rate: 2.2
Number of fatal work injuries: 322

10 occupations with high fatal work injury rates (per 100,000 full-time workers):

1. Fishers and related fishing workers
Fatal work injury rate: 121.2

2. Loggers
Fatal work injury rate: 102.4

3. Aircraft pilots and flight engineers
Fatal work injury rate: 57.0

4. Refuse and recyclable material collectors
Fatal work injury rate: 41.2

5. Roofers
Fatal work injury rate: 31.8

6. Structural iron and steel workers
Fatal work injury rate: 26.9

7. Farmers, ranchers and other agricultural managers
Fatal work injury rate: 25.3

8. Driver/sales workers and truck drivers
Fatal work injury rate: 24.0

9. Electrical power-line installers and repairers
Fatal work injury rate: 20.3

10. Taxi drivers and chauffeurs
Fatal work injury rate: 19.7

The report also includes information on the causes of these workplace fatalities. Topping the list is transportation incidents, which accounted for more than two out of every five fatal work injuries. Also high on the list? Workplace violence, with 458 homicides and 242 suicides recorded in 2011.

Fatal occupational injuries by major event:
Transportation incidents -- 41 percent
Violence and other injuries by people or animals -- 17 percent
Contact with objects and equipment -- 15 percent
Falls, slips and trips -- 14 percent
Exposure to harmful substances and environments -- 9 percent
Fires and explosions -- 3 percent


That's alot of deaths for just working..
Hence the 242 suicides in 2011....

[Hux]

mining is really good pay though, my friend makes around 190k a year.

[ShunnyBun]

mining is really good pay though, my friend makes around 190k a year.

How much is that in USD? Or you mean by $190,000 USD?

But, why risk your life of it caving in?

[Hux]

australian dollars.

[KingDot]

australian dollars.

190000 Australian dollars = 198246.0000 US dollars

[[MPGH]Hennessy]

This.... is random

[[MPGH]Flengo]

I find it weird that Government jobs made it on those lists.

[Glaceon]

2. Mining
Fatal work injury rate: 15.8
Number of fatal work injuries: 154

mean that so much people plays minecraft o.o

[Bernard]

government jobs

[ShunnyBun]

I find it weird that Government jobs made it on those lists.

I lol'd on that, but I think it means by like the CIA and FBI.

[AirCanada]

Too bad i don't live here so no need for this,but the deaths really surprise me.

[BluntGod_]

10 sectors with the highest fatal work injury rates (per 100,000 full-time workers):

1. Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
Fatal work injury rate: 24.4
Number of fatal work injuries: 557

2. Mining
Fatal work injury rate: 15.8
Number of fatal work injuries: 154

3. Transportation and warehousing
Fatal work injury rate: 15.0
Number of fatal work injuries: 733

4. Construction
Fatal work injury rate: 8.9
Number of fatal work injuries: 721

5. Wholesale trade
Fatal work injury rate: 4.9
Number of fatal work injuries: 189

6. Utilities
Fatal work injury rate: 4.2
Number of fatal work injuries: 39

7. Professional and business services
Fatal work injury rate: 2.9
Number of fatal work injuries: 424

8. Other services (e.g., equipment and machinery repairing, promoting or administering religious activities, grant-making)
Fatal work injury rate: 2.9
Number of fatal work injuries: 177

9. Government
Fatal work injury rate: 2.2
Number of fatal work injuries: 495

10. Manufacturing
Fatal work injury rate: 2.2
Number of fatal work injuries: 322

10 occupations with high fatal work injury rates (per 100,000 full-time workers):

1. Fishers and related fishing workers
Fatal work injury rate: 121.2

2. Loggers
Fatal work injury rate: 102.4

3. Aircraft pilots and flight engineers
Fatal work injury rate: 57.0

4. Refuse and recyclable material collectors
Fatal work injury rate: 41.2

5. Roofers
Fatal work injury rate: 31.8

6. Structural iron and steel workers
Fatal work injury rate: 26.9

7. Farmers, ranchers and other agricultural managers
Fatal work injury rate: 25.3

8. Driver/sales workers and truck drivers
Fatal work injury rate: 24.0

9. Electrical power-line installers and repairers
Fatal work injury rate: 20.3

10. Taxi drivers and chauffeurs
Fatal work injury rate: 19.7

The report also includes information on the causes of these workplace fatalities. Topping the list is transportation incidents, which accounted for more than two out of every five fatal work injuries. Also high on the list? Workplace violence, with 458 homicides and 242 suicides recorded in 2011.

Fatal occupational injuries by major event:
Transportation incidents -- 41 percent
Violence and other injuries by people or animals -- 17 percent
Contact with objects and equipment -- 15 percent
Falls, slips and trips -- 14 percent
Exposure to harmful substances and environments -- 9 percent
Fires and explosions -- 3 percent


That's alot of deaths for just working..
Hence the 242 suicides in 2011....

My job is being a pornstar , i'd consider that to be in the top ten.

[Asuna]

Its interesting looking at the rates. Might use them for a school paper im doing

[ShunnyBun]

Its interesting looking at the rates. Might use them for a school paper im doing

it's actual facts, found it on MSN.

[Asuna]

it's actual facts, found it on MSN.

Good find girl