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Top 25 Most Dangerous Professions (Fatal Injury Rate per 100,000 Workers) 1 Logging workers (70) 2 Aircraft pilots and flight engineers (60) 3 Roofers (50)
by rexpop 4y ago
Top 25 Most Dangerous Professions (Fatal Injury Rate per 100,000 Workers)
1 Logging workers (70)
2 Aircraft pilots and flight engineers (60)
3 Roofers (50)
4 Construction helpers (40)
5 Crossing guards (38)
6 Garbage collectors (31)
7 Farming supervisors (29)
8 Delivery drivers (28)
9 Ironworkers (27)
10 Farmers (25)
11 Cement masons (22)
12 Agricultural workers (21)
13 Construction supervisors (20)
14 Highway maintenance workers (19)
15 Grounds maintenance workers (18)
16 Mining machine operators (18)
17 Supervisors of mechanics (16)
18 Power lineworkers (15)
19 Construction workers (14)
20 Construction equipment operators (14)
21 Maintenance workers (13)
22 Heavy vehicle mechanics (13)
23 Crane operators (13)
24 Landscaping supervisors (12)
25 Police officers (12)
For what it's worth, most of us have little education on the subject of policing. We're taught a lot about how a biological cell operates, how to structure English grammar, and who fought the War of 1812, but absolutely nothing about how police function, when policing was invented, by whom, where, or to what end[0]. We go through our adult lives believing about police what we absorbed from children's cartoons and, later, TV procedurals or action movies. This leaves us with an impression of the field that is naive, if not outright fantasy.
0. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3906-the-end-of-policing https://www.versobooks.com/books/3906-the-end-of-policing
- ifelsethenyeah 4y agoI'm not sure where you sourced your information. Taxi drivers are around as dangerous as loggers. Petro-chem (oil rigs) are also extremely dangerous.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoPolice tend to be assaulted at far higher rates than any kind of fatal injury rate, and I'm not sure I'd say it's 'safe' just because it's not death. Do you have any statistics that put a figure on the actual amount of psychopathic/drug fuelled/antisocial behaviour directed specifically at police? I'd be surprised if Airline pilots were assaulted at the same level as police, for example.
- kelseyfrog 4y agocool, do the same list but for assault rates
- drewcoo 4y agoDefinitely don't record loggers at close range!
- kazinator 4y agoI see "17 supervisors of mechanics" but not "mechanics" (other than 22, "Heavy vehicle mechanics"). Maybe supervisors of mechanics should keep a distance from the mechanics; perhaps stay in the back room and reorganize the files in the cabinet. OK, jest aside. Could this be an age/experience effect? Here is the idea: over time, mechanics get promoted to supervisor positions, right? Suppose the average number of years for a mechanic to get promoted to supervisor is X. Then suppose that, for a mechanic, the average number of years on the job before a fatal accident is Y. If it happens that Y >> X, then more supervisors will be killed than more junior mechanics. This is something akin to or a form of survivorship bias. It's not that supervisors have a more dangerous job but that they have been doing it longer, exposed to more cumulative risk.
- rufus_foreman 4y agoI'm not sure what the point of your list is. Is your argument that professions like crane operator or construction worker are nowhere near as dangerous as that of logging worker, so we don't need regulations to make them safer? Because in my opinion, crane operator and construction worker are dangerous professions, and if there are reasonable regulations that can make them safer, it would be a good idea to look at the pros and cons of those regulations.