Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs in the US

[Metro Jacksonville]

Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs in the US



There 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.

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[Noone]

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[BridgeTroll]

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[Overstreet]

Perhaps..............however anybody with current OSHA 10, or 30 hour instruction knows that the highest two causes of construction fatalities, including roofers, laborers, and iron workers, are falls and cave-ins. The items listed are important, but not the most dangerous of those professions. Falls and trenching/excavation top the construction hazards list.

[I-10east]

I'm surprised that convenient store clerks wasn't mentioned. That's one of the first things that came to mind.

[blizz01]

I wonder about active duty military.   I suppose that's situational and/or conditional as well.

[coredumped]

10 pages??? Really MJ? This is killing me!

[Overstreet]

It depends too on how they figure the death rate.  For example the degree of fatality is usually compaired to exposure. It may be a number compared to total hours of worked of all in that field. For example deaths per manhour. 

So if there were 10 military deaths compaired to 3 million manhours the rate is very small, 1/300,000.  But if there were 10 ironworkers in 100,000 manhours  it would be larger, 1/10,000.  Thus......... more dangerous.  (numbers for example purposes)

Military rates are more complex since they also include "off duty" time.  Which includes natural causes, accidents, suicides , etc. Construction trade rates do not list off duty accidents, natural causes, etc.

[Tacachale]

^Yeah, that's definitely right. I remember reading one article at some point that said "whale trainer" was one of the most dangerous jobs. This was because there aren't that many trainers, and some of them get attacked by the whales, involved in accidents, etc., so the per capita risk of injury was relatively high. But it's a statistic that affects a population of maybe a few hundred in the entire country.