The World's Most Dangerous Jobs
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Not everybody is born with a golden spoon. Hence, working so to live is indispensable for many. Most of us risk our lives when working. Yet again, we have to acknowledge that is it not only the policemen, fire fighters, reporters in a war zone, military and so on are the ones who are willing to fight for someone and are willing to get hurt. In fact, there are many form of work and industry that's putting the health and lives of many in a gamble .
According to the recent study of the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics or BLS, there has already been 5,703 work related fatalities in USA as of the year 2006. Looking at the results of the workers injured in the industries like construction, agriculture and mining for instance, one may see that there are pretty much hazard in this field of work.
Construction which includes transportation, material moving occupation and extraction occupations covers nearly half of the 48% of the dangerous work related injuries in 2006. 29.6% accidents has been recorded per 100,000.00 workers in the industry of Agriculture while 27.8% has been noted in the field of Mining per 100,000.00 workers. The following are detailed list of the most dangerous job noted as of 2006 by the BLS.
Miscellaneous Agricultural Workers
Fatality Rate (per 100, 000.00 workers:21.7
Number of Fatalities: 158
Average Salary: $24, 140
Driver/Sales Workers and Truck Drivers
Fatality Rate (per 100, 000.00 workers: 27.1
Number of Fatalities: 940
Average Salary: $30.931
Roofers
Fatality Rate (per 100, 000.00 workers:33.9
Number of Fatalities: 82
Average Salary: $28, 474
Electrical Power-line Installers and Repairers
Fatality Rate (per 100, 000.00 workers:34.9
Number of Fatalities: 38
Average Salary: $45, 3331.00
Farmers and Ranchers
Fatality Rate (per 100, 000.00 workers:37.1
Number of Fatalities: 291
Average Salary: $15, 603
Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors
Fatality Rate (per 100, 000.00 workers:41.8
Number of Fatalities: 38
Average Salary: $23,770
Structural Iron and Steel Workers
Fatality Rate (per 100, 000.00 workers: 61.0
Number of Fatalities: 36
Average Salary: $39,168
Logging Workers
Fatality Rate (per 100, 000.00 workers: 82.1
Number of Fatalities: 64
Average Salary: $22, 320
Aircraft Pilots and Flight Engineers
Fatality Rate (per 100, 000.00 workers: 87.8
Number of Fatalities: 101
Average Salary: $129,250
