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A recent (paywalled) article in the New Scientist stated that the fatal accident rate for ships' crews is twenty times that of the average British worker. http

• gsnedders 9y ago
  How does the fatal accident rate for, e.g., professional drivers compare with the average worker? I imagine crewing a ship is more dangerous, but humans are famously bad at evaluating risk.
  • Latteland 9y ago
    So being crew on a merchant ship is more dangerous that cops (by far), and probably more dangerous on say a 10 year timeframe than being in the military (since you probably aren't at war that much over 10 years, unless you are unlucky).
    • michaelt 9y ago
      For the British merchant fleet, 19.5 deaths per 100,000 seafarer-years [1]. For American loggers, 90 deaths per 100,000 worker-years [2] making it the most dangerous job. For American taxi drivers, ~18 deaths (of which 8 are murders) per 100,000 full-time-worker-years [2]. Making taxi driver the most murdered profession - and it was worse around 2000, when the rate was an eye-watering 23.7 murders. As you say, policing isn't the most dangerous profession; the rate there is 11 deaths of which 3.5 are murders. [1] https://academic.oup.com/occmed/article/64/4/259/1464740 https://academic.oup.com/occmed/article/64/4/259/1464740 [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/28/charted-the-20-deadliest-jobs-in-america/?utm_term=.d37ea0bcc324 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/28/chart...
• walshemj 9y ago
  Its probably including fishing which has I would imagine a much higher rate than crews on a cruise liner.