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The most dangerous jobs in America
Occupations with the highest rate of fatal work injuries (deaths per 100,000 workers): 1. Fishers and related fishing workers: 116 2. Logging workers: 91.9 3. Aircraft pilots and flight engineers: 70.6 (msn.careerbuilder.com) More...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I don't buy into pilots being so high up. They had to have thrown in GA fatalities with airlines pilots. More police officers are killed every year than airline pilots, and look where they are on the list.
That is ironic considering that air travel is dubbed the safest way to travel.
Well, they didn't specify the type of pilot so they must have put GA figures in there as well Clint, but they did say flight engineers. Gives you pause to wonder just how dated that thing is with so many 2 man crews out their now and other than some of the heavies, FE's are going away. Did I miss something?????
That's when you want to look at the raw numbers, these overall numbers don't make sense.
Many of these data have been lumped together for it is well known that taxi drivers have a very high mortality rate and those data can be stratified even further into inner city vs. more rural and day versus night. On the other hand, private limo drivers are most likely quite low.
Frankly, I would not want to be in the pizza delivery business or a night clerk at a Stop and Rob.
Frankly, I would not want to be in the pizza delivery business or a night clerk at a Stop and Rob.
When they say flight engineers, they are referring to personnel onboard an aircraft that is being tested. They are not referring to GA, as workplace fatalities have nothing to do with GA. Due to the low number of test pilots and test flight engineers, the fatalities that do occur make the average rate very high.