Print ArticleThere was a consistent decline in unemployment rate last year, opening at 7.9% in January down to an all-time year low of 7% in November (December data is not yet out), according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the figure is still higher than when we started 2008 at 5% a few months before the subprime crisis hit. Clearly, many more Americans would like to land a job, but would they love these jobs to, literally, die for? Check out America’s most dangerous jobs based on the 2012 National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries.
#4 Roofers: [40.5]
The Job: Mount, fix roofs
The Pay: $38,800
The Hazards: Height, heat stroke in summer
The tin roof of a downtown Jacksonville building, looking west down Bay Street, towards Railroad Row during the 1890s. Photograph courtesy of the State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/26105
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