Dangerous (US) jobs.
Nov. 30th, 2015 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dagibbsWith the recent attacks on Planned Parenthood sites, I was wondering about most-dangerous-jobs in the US. There's lots of good data, generalized normalized to deaths/100,000 workers/year.
Some of the top jobs are the ones we kind of expect will be in the list: fishery workers, loggers, or miners (I assume that is what "misc. extraction workers" means), at about 131, 97, and 57 deaths per 100k/y. Some are a bit more surprising, such as aircraft pilots at about 70.
Interestingly, military doesn't seem to be in the stats. Perhaps the military isn't tracked by the US department of labor?
Then I thought about another job... and did a bit of math. This job works out to having about 1600 deaths/ 100k worker-years.
This very deadly job? President of the United States. (4 assasinations over 239 person-years of work. Risky business. And that's assuming that all of the deaths due to illness while in office were not job-related. )
Some of the top jobs are the ones we kind of expect will be in the list: fishery workers, loggers, or miners (I assume that is what "misc. extraction workers" means), at about 131, 97, and 57 deaths per 100k/y. Some are a bit more surprising, such as aircraft pilots at about 70.
Interestingly, military doesn't seem to be in the stats. Perhaps the military isn't tracked by the US department of labor?
Then I thought about another job... and did a bit of math. This job works out to having about 1600 deaths/ 100k worker-years.
This very deadly job? President of the United States. (4 assasinations over 239 person-years of work. Risky business. And that's assuming that all of the deaths due to illness while in office were not job-related. )
