My wife was a little upset to hear that I am involved in the second deadliest job in the country. This is I think accroding to either USA Today or Yahoo I can't remember. Anyway the number one most dangerous profession is Commercial fishing. The second is aircraft pilot/flight engineer. The article I read could be wrong so don't hate on me if it's not right.
I had no idea, I'm not a pilot (or really a flight engineer) but my job requires flying in a Helicopter (as well as riding in an ambulance and/or catching the occasional fixed wing).I'm an aeromedical crew member. I don't scrape up wrecks or that type of stuff thank god. I transport strictly neonates (newborn babies) and pediatric patients. I attended an advanced traume course a few years back and the dangers of the job were talked about in the beginning of the class. The stat's at that time were 10% would be killed or suffer serious injury. I don't know what it's like these days but the way they are going down out west it's probably not much better.
All that being said I've been doing this job for a long time and love it. The pay's good and it's quite an adrenaline rush almost every day. When the pilot is on short final and say's "Your responsible for the smokestack on your side. Call it out if we get to close" It really makes you pay attention. Also getting caught out where you can see the power of a thunderstorm from the same altitude gives you newfound respect for the weather.
To be honest I imagine that my sector of aviation is less dangerous than say cropdusting/construction/electrical tower servicing etc. Our company also provides 1 million dollars of insurance if you are killed on the job. All this being said I've never felt in mortal danger on the job. Had some turbulent rides that had my backside out of the seat more than in but that's about it.
So...Is your job dangerous? Semi dangerous....boring. Sometime's mine can seem to be all three in one shift. I'm in the last hour of a 16 hour shift right now and bored to tears. Last week we were dodging storms and a few weeks before that we were mass casualty evacuating a hospital that flooded.
[bacon] I also love Bacon...a real risk taker here!! ;D
Well, working on bikes isn't the safest occupation.
I recall hearing that at one time, jockeys had the highest fatality rates.
Followed by firemen and police officers.
My job is about as un-dangerous as a construction job can be. I'm a finish carpenter, so my normal exposure to danger is pretty much limited to nail guns and saws. Nail guns I don't sweat too much. I've seen a few people shot, but I'm so anal about gun safety, I think I have a better chance of hitting lotto than I do getting shot.
I've had a few close calls with the saws, but they were all 100% preventable, as I tend to rush a little too much sometimes. I've seen some pretty nasty saw accidents though. **gagging**
Hell, I've been in the trades in one form or another for 12+ years and I just hit my thumb with a hammer for the first time about 2 months ago.
Bacon and airplanes. One of those two will be the death of me. I really hope it's not the bacon.
**I just remembered that I did get electrocuted once about 10 years ago. Never wire up a hot outlet w/ a Leatherman. make the beast with two backsing brilliant. [roll] I woke up about 5 minutes later lying in the middle of the room. [laugh] **
I have a desk job :-\
Does riding everyday into work on your motorcycle count ;D
However I watch the Deadliest Catch every Tuesday on the Discovery Channel ;D [thumbsup]
Unfortunately yes there has been a string of very bad medical copter crashes in the last year. Let's hope it's an anomaly.
Sounds like you definitely have an exciting and engaging job which is not something everyone can say. IMHO the purpose it provides makes up for the added risk.
mine - not very dangerous. Might get carpel tunnel. Long term - probably won't be able to have kids due to working on/around live antennas.
I've got a dangerous job that gives free life insurance to my s/o... we have terrorist threats etc. especially at larger customers such as banks and US based financial institutions.
The biggest risks in my job are back/joint injuries and auto accidents. But since I'm the one in the big brown truck, I'm most likely to come out ahead in a collision. ;D
I teach & drive a school bus. Not sure where it falls into the danger category ~
JM
I used to run drugs from Columbia. My legs got to tired though. Bad joke.
Not terribly dangerous 99% of the time (engineer, building satellites). It does get dangerous when we fuel the satellite, then pt it in the rocket, and then launch it. As of the time it's fueled....it's basically a bomb at that point.
One year, the rocket, rather than going up, took a 90 degree turn and crashed into the town the launch crew was staying at. Not good.
I work with a fair amount of carcinogenic, toxic, teratogenic, radioactive and biohazardous materials.
I also have some risk from traveling a lot. I think the total radiation I have been exposed to while flying far exceeds anything I've ever worked with in the lab.
Not to mention my propensity for exploring the "interesting" areas around the locations I am visiting, such as the time I got screamed at in Korean by a heavily-armed N. Korean soldier while I was wandering around the DMZ. I also went right through the riot zones in France a few years back. [roll]
I seem to spend alot of time waist deep in water....regardless of the weather [roll] When the lightning strikes and thunderclaps happen right about the same time, I usually say screw it and get back in the truck. Thats about the only dangerous thing about what I do.
There are some bad chemicals I use when I'm in the lab, but I put on the gloves and the lab coat....etc, etc. It's not anything I worry about
2006 Labor Bureau Statistics:
Fishers and related fishing workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 141.7
Number of fatalities: 51
Average salary: $19,104
Aircraft pilots and flight engineers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 87.8
Number of fatalities: 101
Average salary: $129,250
Logging workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 82.1
Number of fatalities: 64
Average salary: $22,320
Structural iron and steel workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 61.0
Number of fatalities: 36
Average salary: $39,168
Refuse and recyclable material collectors
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 41.8
Number of fatalities: 38
Average salary: $23,770
Farmers and ranchers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 37.1
Number of fatalities: 291
Average salary: $15,603
Electrical power-line installers and repairers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 34.9
Number of fatalities: 38
Average salary: $45,331
Roofers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 33.9
Number of fatalities: 82
Average salary: $28,474
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 27.1
Number of fatalities: 940
Average salary: $30,931 (for heavy or tractor-trailer drivers)
Miscellaneous agricultural workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 21.7
Number of fatalities: 158
Average salary: $24,140
I wonder where the military ranks in that list.
Border Patrol Agent. At times boring. At times a full on adreniline rush; like earlier this year when someone tried to shoot me with a 30-06 after I pulled him over. :o
Thanks for the stat's Cyrus. Cool responses. Nice variety of people on the board. If my bike gets out of the shop this coming week I can indulge my dangerous hobby on the way to my dangerous job.
[bacon] <---- this is the coolest symbol anywhere.
Not horrible, sharp knives everywhere, chemicals that if they catch on fire produce cyanide gas, oh yeah and paper cuts everyday [thumbsup]
What really scares me is the boss and his soon to take over son playing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ---ooooh chills run into safe room. [bang]
Knives, fire, hot oil, chemicals, and a bar...not to bad
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Quote from: blue tiger on July 13, 2008, 12:03:23 AM
[bacon] I also love Bacon...a real risk taker here!! ;D
As long as it comes from the gobble-gobble..then you're ok! [thumbsup]
My profession isn't typically on any "most dangerous" list but add house-to-house visits, a Ducati and Phoenix traffic..
it did make things interesting! [evil]
dangerous?
I don't think so.
The isocyanates might kill me...
but something will regardless.
not worried.
my old job (Hotshot Foreman, wildland fire) was considered dangerous, by some. IMHO, it was only dangerous to stupid people with no situational awareness. definitely stressful though
having said that, i am planning on a less stressful career from here on out.
Quote from: blue tiger on July 13, 2008, 04:57:31 PM
Thanks for the stat's Cyrus.
No problem, it is the truth according to statistics.
It is funny how so many people post their jobs are the most dangerous, but probably don't fall on the list.
Quote from: cyrus buelton on July 13, 2008, 11:30:58 AM
2006 Labor Bureau Statistics:
Fishers and related fishing workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 141.7
Number of fatalities: 51
Average salary: $19,104
Aircraft pilots and flight engineers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 87.8
Number of fatalities: 101
Average salary: $129,250
Logging workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 82.1
Number of fatalities: 64
Average salary: $22,320
Structural iron and steel workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 61.0
Number of fatalities: 36
Average salary: $39,168
Refuse and recyclable material collectors
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 41.8
Number of fatalities: 38
Average salary: $23,770
Farmers and ranchers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 37.1
Number of fatalities: 291
Average salary: $15,603
Electrical power-line installers and repairers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 34.9
Number of fatalities: 38
Average salary: $45,331
Roofers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 33.9
Number of fatalities: 82
Average salary: $28,474
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 27.1
Number of fatalities: 940
Average salary: $30,931 (for heavy or tractor-trailer drivers)
Miscellaneous agricultural workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 21.7
Number of fatalities: 158
Average salary: $24,140
#8 with a coil nailer!
Damn, I'm safer than the guy who picks up my garbage!
Garbage collectors are routinley hit by cars. We have over many thousands of missions with no accidents but have had a few incidents. One pilot landed to close to the vent tube at a fueling site. When the rotor disc sagged as the engine's came down they hit the vent tube. 250,000 bucks in damage. The entire rotor system was destroyed.
We also had a fixed wing slide of a runway at a local airport. Destroyed the nose and both props hit the ground when the nose gear collapsed. Both engines needed a complete rebuild as well as the tranny's for the props. That was about 2 years ago. Damage was probably close to 500 grand.
I'm a mechanic on the Steelhead oil and gas platform in cook inlet Alaska.
I ride a helicopter once a week either going out for my week long hitch or coming home.
I've taken a few white knuckle chopper rides.
All in all it's pretty boring. But on an offshore platform if the stuff ever does hit the fan there's no place to run.
The Steelhead suffered a blowout in 87, took out the drilling rig, both cranes, the living quarters............there are places where the floor is buckled from the 87 blowout.
Drilling is supposed to be coming out in late August for a two year drilling program ( oh goody [bang] )
Quote from: cyrus buelton on July 13, 2008, 07:25:50 PM
No problem, it is the truth according to statistics.
It is funny how so many people post their jobs are the most dangerous, but probably don't fall on the list.
thats funny...
the "truth" is that statistics are just a mathematical opinion.
Quote from: herm on July 13, 2008, 10:48:59 PM
thats funny...
the "truth" is that statistics are just a mathematical opinion.
one in a million doesn't mean much until it's your turn as the " one "
Quote from: slowpoke13 on July 13, 2008, 01:35:16 PM
I wonder where the military ranks in that list.
Yep. Infantry would be right at the top of the list I imagine.
Quote from: msincredible on July 13, 2008, 10:28:51 AM
Not to mention my propensity for exploring the "interesting" areas around the locations I am visiting, such as the time I got screamed at in Korean by a heavily-armed N. Korean soldier while I was wandering around the DMZ. I also went right through the riot zones in France a few years back. [roll]
You should be a bit more careful with that. A South Korean National was fatally shot by a NK soldier the other day while at a famous tourist location just outside of a NK naval facility.
I run a photo lab in a large Electrical store, I slave away in Air conditioned comfort, Large glass doors to look out of when I'm bored (And look at the bike which is parked near the doors) When there is no printing to be done I surf the web, and checking out the lovely ladies that come in to buy some electrical goods (one advantage of being located near the only entrance [thumbsup] )
My day consists of taking a receipt from a customer, turning 180 degrees and clicking a mouse to activate the order, sit on my ass and surf the web (more mouse clicking), when the machine has finished the order, place the photo's in an envelope, hand envelope to customer, repeat 20 - 30 times in a day, once a week perform maintenance on the machine which takes two hours, surf the web some more, close the machine down half an hour before the store closes, which takes 10 mins (about 5 clicks on a mouse), when the machine finishes, I leave early.
My Doctor says I have the joints of an 80 year old in my right pointer finger from all the mouse clicking.
I'm putting in for Stress leave.... ;)
WOOO HOOOO #6 Oh, wait, thats not too good. Cow about got me a couple of weeks ago, thought she broke my arm, but just banged up pretty good, pregnant dog. But now she's [bacon] well, not bacon, but meat, she had it coming.