Sineed
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The Ten Most Dangerous Jobs In America:

http://www.chaseconsulting.ca/archive/Winter%202005%20Newsletter.pdf

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The 10 Most Dangerous Jobs 

Which job is most likely to get you killed? 

To start off, here's a list of the 10 most dangerous occupations in America. 

More precisely, it's a list of the occupations that had the highest fatality rates per 100,000 workers based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: 

Number one on the list is a tie between logging and aircraft pilots at 92.4 fatalities per 100,000. 

Here's the rest of the list: 

3. Fishers & Fishing Workers: 86.4

4. Iron & Steel Workers: 47.3

5. Garbage Collectors: 43.2

6. Farmers & Ranchers: 37.5

7. Roofers: 34.9

8. Power Line Installers/Repairers: 30

9. Truckers and Driver/Sales Workers (such as pizza delivery persons): 27.6

10. Taxi Drivers & Chauffeurs: 24.2 

WCB 

 

Just to provide a little perspective.  As an example from my own job, I know a pharmacist who was shot by bikers who were robbing him, another pharmacist who was tied up with duct tape and threatened with a knife, and several other pharmacists who have had guns pointed at them in the course of hold-ups.  I have had HIV positive people spit at me, and I was slightly injured last year when an irate Oxycontin addict, annoyed that I wouldn't fill his dodgy Oxycontin script, threw bottles at me.

Health care workers get assaulted all the time. 

 


Ontario jail guards vote to strike, will return to negotiations By: Sineed (72 replies) January 31, 2009 - 10:41am
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