"One of many places, on or in but near the Earth's surface, generally accessible to human beings and constituting areas in which human activity is desirable or

"One of many places, on or in but near the Earth's surface, generally accessible to human beings and constituting areas in which human activity is desirable or profitable, which are significantly more deadly (insert desired measure of "deadliness" and desired deviation from mean) to exposed/unprotected human beings, over short or extended periods of time, than the mean deadliness of such locations considered as a whole." Would that make you happier, little pedant? Or maybe you could've just flagged it and moved the fuck on?