Most Dangerous Jobs in the United States
21 August 2006What are the most dangerous jobs in the U.S.? The government, through the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, releases an annual report with the top ten most dangerous jobs in America, and CNN has the list:
1) Fishermen – A job that risks falling overboard, bad weather, and lots of heavy machinery.
2) Loggers – This is mainly because of equipment that is very dangerous if handled improperly, along with trees falling on people.
3) Pilots – Keep in mind before you freak out that most of the deaths are coming from smaller planes, not the commercial kind you’re flying in.
4) Iron and Steel Workers – More big machinery along with a dangerous workplace with molten metal everywhere.
5) Recycling and Trash Workers – It’s that machinery again.
6) Farmers – Combines, threshing machines – that stuff can hurt you.
7) Power Line Workers – This one’s the electricity – and working fifty feet in the air.
Truck Drivers – A lot of this is just that they’re on the road so much, they are exposed to many more chances for car accidents.
9) Agriculture Workers – For the same reasons as farmers.
10) Construction Workers – Again, lots of machinery that is dangerous.
The moral seems to be to stay away from heavy machinery if you want a safe workplace. Then again, you can get some serious hazard pay for working in dangerous fields. Personally, I’ll take the office job…
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One Response to “Most Dangerous Jobs in the United States”
January 25th, 2007 at 8:22 am
What about correction officers