[opendtv] Re: Most Dangerous Job in the World
- From: "johnwillkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:59:13 -0700
I don't see electricians or broadcast engineers on that list. I will
concede that structural metal workers can include tower riggers, but I
suspect that most of those folk work on high-rises.
Come to think of it, my brother Matt died on the job in one of those
"extractive occupations" -- he was a gold miner.
Oh, this list is not about occupations and is misleading, since in no year
since I've been alive have 230 commercial pilots died. Maybe 40, and that
includes bush pilots, but not weekend and pleasure-flying pilots.
If you want occupational statistics, you visit the OSHA site. Primary
information is ALWAYS more accurate than secondary information.
Climbing is always a risk endeavor.
John Willkie
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De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Bob Miller
Enviado el: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:15 PM
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Asunto: [opendtv] Re: Most Dangerous Job in the World
Truck drivers by percentage of population fall around 9th or 10th in
the list of top ten most dangerous jobs. This list from 2000 I found
interesting because falling from a height, gravity related accidents,
seems to be the way most job related deaths occur.
http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/03/0903worksafe.html
Job Number Of Fatalities Fatality Rate*
Timber Cutters 105 122.1
Fishermen 52 108.3
Pilots 230 100.8
Structural Metal Workers 47 59.5
Extractive Occupations 69 53.9
Roofers 65 30.2
Construction Workers 288 28.3
Truck Drivers 852 27.6
All Occupations 5,915 4.3
Timber cutters die from falls, pilots die from gravity, ditto
structural metal workers, roofers, construction workers. This list is
only eight long and gravity is a major part of five of them.
I don't think the very small population of broadcast tower workers was
considered or maybe as a subset of one of the above.
With their very small population I still think tower workers must have
the most dangerous job there is. Two or three deaths a year would put
them on top.
But if it were a job title, Working At Height, any height more than a
story or two, would be the most dangerous job in the world by far.
Gravity is the biggest killer.
Bob Miller
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