With any job, safety should be your first priority. Whether it’s operating heavy equipment, physically demanding jobs that are labor-intensive, or jobs that often expose employees to harmful substances, the reality of hazardous jobs is that work injuries do happen and anyone can get injured. Or even die on the job, for that matter.
According to the Visual Capitalist website, the U.S. experienced nearly 5,500 fatalities in 2022, which makes these certain jobs listed the most dangerous in the country.
It’s so dangerous, a worker dies every 96 minutes from a work-related injury. Jobs such as logging, roofing and construction, and work involving fishing and hunting workers, steel workers, flight engineers, airflight pilots, delivery and truck drivers, on-the-road salespeople, underground mining machine operators and electrical power line workers have all made the list. According to Forbes Magazine , under the workers’ compensation laws across most of the country, there’s no need for employees to prove employer negligence to receive payment for injuries while working.
This also includes payments for lost wages if you have to take time off and medical bills. The list stems from the latest U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics as of December 2023 and is based on the number of fatal work injuries per 100,000 full-time workers. Even though most of these jobs witness less than 100 deaths a year, roofers experience more than a hundred each year compared to delivery and truck drivers, who experience more than a thousand a year, according to Forbes Magazine. Stories by EmilyAnn Jackman This legendary beauty products seller has filed for bankruptcy Family of murdered ‘General Hospital’ actor pleads for more help to find his killers Barack Obama’s summer reading list of his 14 must-buy books is out.
