Fishing is the Most Dangerous Job in America, huh???

Question

According to CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360' tonight, lovely anchor Soledad O'briend stated from the dept of labor stats the most dangerous jobs in the USA are: (1) Fishing ...(2) Logging & Lumber.
So Fishing is more dangerous than police work and mining? *lol*

Answer 1

Sounds about right. Fishing is pretty dangerous. I dont think police would even make the top 50. Its based on number of deaths per workers. And your chance of living if you take the job. Here is a slide show of the top 10.

http://www.forbes.com/media/2006/11/06/americas-most-dangerous-jobs-biz-cx_tvr_1106jobs_slide.html?partner=msnbc

Answer 2

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Answer 3

On-the-job accidents and homicides claimed the lives of 5,524 Americans last year, down 6.6% from 2001. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the workplace death rate is the lowest it has seen since recordkeeping began in 1992. Of that 5,524, only 104 were timber-cutters, but those fatalities represent a death rate nearly 30 times that of a typical workplace. Loggers died at a rate of 117.8 per 100,000 workers, the BLS said, with most of them killed by falling trees. The death rate for American workplaces as a whole was 4 per 100,000. (That's among occupations with more than 30 fatalities in 2002 and more than 45,000 employed.)

Answer 4

King Crab hunting is extremely dangerous. Frigid water, rough seas, and accidents waiting to happen.

From Wikipedia:

Alaskan crab fishing is one of the United States' most dangerous jobs.[5] In 2005, the Bureau of Labor Statistics ranked commercial fishing as the job occupation with the highest fatality rate with 118.4 fatalities per 100,000, almost 30 times the rate of the average worker.[6] However, Alaskan crab fishing specifically is even more dangerous with over 300 fatalities per 100,000.[7][8] Over 80% of these deaths are caused by drowning or hypothermia.[9] The fishermen are also susceptible to crippling injuries obtained from working with heavy machinery and gear.[10]

Answer 5

That's what some would like us to believe, but it makes for another tv program and contributes to the high price of fish....the real most dangerous job is going to work everyday in traffic with a bunch of block headed arrogant drivers...46,000 people killed each year on the hyways..that far exceeds any other type of work..but no one seems to be aware of this

Answer 6

Fishing has always been a hazardous way to make a living. In some fishing communities in the past, drowning at sea was considered a natural death. At least it's not that bad in the US anymore.

Answer 7

When the list identifies fishing as the most dangerous job, it is not referring to dropping your baited line over the rowboat that is anchored out on a nice calm lake during a balmy summer day. It is referring to fishing in the arctic waters, hauling 300 pound cages out of the water, working 23 out of 24 hour days and needing to be tied to the ship in the likely event that you are thrown overboard. NOte that I said LIKELY!!!!Most fisherman come back from their voyages with broken bones, stitches, frostbite, and of course the "one that got away" story.

Answer 8

When you consider all the people in the northern seas doing it, yeah, it's pretty easy to fall off the boat and die of hypothermia, or get knocked upside the head with heavy equipment... something's bound to go wrong.

Answer 9

There is a show on the Discovery Channel that shows just how dangerous these boats can be. Its brutal.

Answer 10

I would say smuggler would be a riskier job, that Anderson Cooper just didn't think to include in his statistics.