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Does anyone have any knowledge of how dangerous Chinese manufacturing jobs are compared to, say, US Manufacturing, or other sectors of the US economy? I.E. Is
by ghshephard 13y ago
Does anyone have any knowledge of how dangerous Chinese manufacturing jobs are compared to, say, US Manufacturing, or other sectors of the US economy?
I.E. Is american agriculture (farming) more dangerous than chinese manufacturing?
Here is what I was able to find on the US:
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0658.pdf http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0658.p...
US agriculture is pretty dangerous - 25 deaths per 100,000 employees/year. Anybody able to find stats on Chinese Manufacturing?
[Edit: from http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/China-Factory-Injuries.htm http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/China-Factory-Injuries.htm -- "The International Labor Organization has estimated annual deaths from workplace accidents at 11.1 per 100,000 Chinese workers. That compares with the U.S. on-the-job fatality rate of 2.19 per 100,000." - That means, given a choice, you would be safer in a Chinese Manufacturing job than an American Agriculture job.
Also - the death rate in the United States manufacturing in 1970 is pretty close to the death rate in China, 2011 ]
[Edit 2: Note - another way of looking at this - if FoxCon Manufacturing was as safe/dangerous as US manufacturing, there should be about 20 Foxcon work related deaths per year. Does anybody have insight into how many FoxCon deaths a year there are?]
- protomyth 13y agoTractors flipping over is probably the big on in US Agriculture, but quite a few people die in the grain silos doing various things. Most big Ag companies are fairly psycho about safety. I remember an elevator supervisor who fired workers who went over the speed limit on the elevators road and being told it was a firing offense to stand on a chair to reach something.