Question:
The 10 most dangerous jobs in America
The workplace death rate continued to fall in 2002, but some jobs
remain staggeringly risky.
Answer:
Mining tops list of dangerous industries
Going underground is still one of the most dangerous jobs. Mining is
the most perilous industry as a whole to work in, according to the
BLS.
There were 23.5 deaths in mining for every 100,000 workers in 2002,
the BLS said. That was just slightly ahead of agriculture, forestry
and fishing, where there were 22.7 deaths for every 100,000 workers.
But deaths in mining are still down 22% from the 2001 rate.
Overall, the number of deaths occurring in the workplace dropped 6.6%
from the year before to 5,524, the lowest number since the workplace
fatality census was started in 1992, excluding the Sept. 11 attacks.
Following mining and agriculture, construction saw 12.2 deaths per
100,000 workers. Transportation, which includes trucking and air
travel, saw 11.3 work-related deaths per 100,000 workers.
“In addition to the new all-time lows in total workplace fatalities
and fatality rates, it is especially encouraging to see a 6% decrease
in fatalities among Hispanic workers after seeing increases every year
since 1995,” Labor Secretary Elaine Chow said. “The Department's
outreach efforts, such as the Hispanic Task Force on Worker Safety,
our Spanish-language Web sites and hiring of Spanish-speaking OSHA
employees, will continue to make Hispanic workers safer.”
Considering your usual repetitive posts I read through this entire
article looking for an astronomical #1 death rate for police officers
in the 'hood. Instead it's loggers and fishermen. I thought farmers
would be up higher. Never heard much about loggers, but there have
been some bad farm stories in the paper - guy's son getting his arm
caught in a PTO (Power Take-Off) shaft, etc., etc.
