On the topic of the physical toll taken on workers (and their families) by manual labor jobs, OSHA says "Out of 4,674 worker fatalities in private industry in c

On the topic of the physical toll taken on workers (and their families) by manual labor jobs, OSHA says "Out of 4,674 worker fatalities in private industry in calendar year 2017, 971 or 20.7% were in construction — that is, one in five worker deaths last year were in construction." Probably the most physically dangerous part of a programming job is getting there (car crashes etc). https://www.osha.gov/oshstats/commonstats.html https://www.osha.gov/oshstats/commonstats.html