Most Dangerous Jobs in World...!!!

COMMERCIAL FISHING: 129 deaths per 100,000 people employed in the industry and 61 injuries per 100,000 for 2008.


The US BLS, Bureau of Labor Statistics, lists the following safety

and hazard material for data gathered in 2008.

One of the most dramatic changes has been within the Fishing Industry, which suffered extremely high occupational death rates in the 1990s. It fell to Number Three on the Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs List in 2006, but rose to Number One in 2007 and reamins in the top position for 2008. It is dangerous and increasing in danger. The deadilist catch is becoming deadlier to the catchers.

The Fishing Industry exeprienced 400 deaths per 100,000 employees in 1990s Alaskan fishing and shellfishing. In 2002, US commerical fishing deaths dropped on average, but raised significantly in 2006, raised again in 2007, and increased yet again in 2008. Fishing is a high-paying job

for the months of active work, but it is dangerous and entails challenging working conditions.

A Cable TV show, Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Network, shows real crab fishers in the Bering Sea. They make a living working many hours a day, 7 days a week, often in the dark, without a break for long stretches of time. They must perform the catch within the window of opportunity, or lose their income for the year. New ship hands sometimes cannot take the pressure and the amount of hard work and long hours required. Reruns of Deadliest Catch may be avaiable on broadcast bnetwork TV in your local area, and the website offers online video archive viewing.

Dangerous Jobs That Changed Positions

• The Timber Industry includes loggers, lumberjacks, and helpers. It held the Number One spot for many years with 92.4 deaths per 100,000 workers in 2006 - a decrease from 118 in 2002. In 2008, fatalities increased to 116 Deaths per 100,000 workers and Timber is Number Two in the Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs in the USA.

One of my pain-management patients was a timber cutter that had been sucked into a buzz saw. He was cut diagonally through the upper body from shoulder to hip and survived, in great pain, living on disability income. Others are hurt and killed by falls, trees falling on them, vehicular accidents, and in other ways.

• The occupation of Farmer or Rancher became more deadily and dangerous in 2008, raising it to Number Three with 40 deaths/100,000 workers.

• Structural Iron and Steel Industry workers remain in the Number Four slot, with a slight decrease to 46/100,000 deaths. (In 2007, it was 76 deaths per 100,000 emplyees).

• Sanitation Workers or Garbage Collectors -- and Recyclers -- rose to the Number Five most-dangerous-job spot with 37 deaths/100,000 workers. Garbage Collectors and Professional Recyclers were not even in the Top 10 for 2002. These jobs have increased in numbers and have become more dangerous jobs.

With the increasing number of buinesses, dwellings, and vehicles in America, drivers and material movers are at increased risk for traffic-related accidents and/or being some other way injured by their machinery.

• Aircraft work-related fatalities increased significantly in 2006, bringing Aircraft Pilots to the Number Two spot in the Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs (82.2 deaths per 100,000) This number decreased to 72/100,000 in 2008 and Aircaft Pilots dropped to its current Number Six spot.

Dangerous Jobs Become More Dangerous

Another word on Garbage and Recycling -- Collectors of Refuse and Recyclables - Garbage Collectors and Professional Recyclers are Number Five. They were not even in the Top 10 for 2002. These jobs have increased in numbers and have become deadlier. With the increasing number of buinesses, dwellings, and vehicles in America, drivers and material movers are at increased risk of traffic-related accidents and/or being some other way injured by their machinery. Drivers of trucks and other srots of commerical vehicles are more at risk as greater numbers of vehicles are put onto the streets as populations grow.

• Roofers are still in the Number Seven spot on the list. 2008: 34 deaths and 3 injuries/100,000 workers. A roofer I know was inujured not only on wounds and broken bones suffered in trips-and-fall claims, but also in the dreased hot asphalt 2nd and 3rd degree burns that are an occuational hazard. burned over 25% of his body as well, he was unable to work again.

• Coal Miner - and other ore miner - has risen to Number Eight in 2008 with 22 deaths/100,000 miners. A number of high profile mining catastrophies have occurred in recent years to drive up the number of deaths and injuries per 100,000 workers. Coal Miner may rise again in 2009 BLS figures and again in 2010 compilations.

• MERCHANT MARINER, another seagoing job, has risen in danger to the Number Nine Most Dangerous Job with 23 deaths and 5 injuries/100,000 workers. The sea now holds two of the Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs by 2008 figures.

• Millers - These grain handlers/ginders and flour-makers are now in the Top 10 with the Number Ten position, at 12 deaths/100,000. In Ohio in 2008, at least two missing persons were later found suffocated in their farm's grain silos, having fallen in. The milling machinery is dangerous as well.

THE SECOND TOP 10 -- Numbers 11 to 20

• Power Line Installer - 30/100,000

• Police Officer - 16/100,000

• Fireman(woman) - 7/100,000

• Oil and Gas Crew - 24 deaths/only 1 inujury/100,000

• Cement Makers - 13 deaths/3 injuries//100,00

• Taxi Drivers and Chauffeurs fell in the Top 20 Most Dangerous Jobs in 2007 to Number Sixteen in 2008 at 21 Deaths/1 injury//100,000.

• Nearly 50% of all work-related injuries happen amongTruck Drivers or Material Movers -truckers, step-van deliveries, forklifts, trash collectors, recyclers, cabbies, movers ("Two Men and a Truck"), chauffeurs. 22 deaths and 0.4 injuries//100,000 in 2008. This is a reduction out of the Top 10 for 2007.

• Constructor Equipment Operators - 16/100,000.

• Slaughterhouse - 2 deaths and 0.4 injury per 100,000. Read fast food antion for an eye-opening account in one chapter of the repeated injour and exploitation of one such worker.

• Security Guards - Increasing in danger at 8/100,000; more dangerous statistically than Police Officers (see link below).