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Before You Assume Cops Have The Most Dangerous Job …
CNN.COM – Nationwide, most employees have a miniscule chance of being killed at work. There were just four fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 workers in the United States in 2005, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That, of course, is just the average. For some workers — soldiers in combat, for example — every day is a life-threatening one. But on the domestic front, the most dangerous jobs are less obvious.
Statistically speaking, farmers — with a fatality rate of 41.1 — are more than twice as likely to die on the job than police officers (18.2) and nearly four times more likely to be killed at work than firefighters (11.5).
