Has anyone seen the latest issue of Outdoor Life Mag? One of the articles titled Deadliest jobs in the outdoors, describes 6 different jobs in what they call the most dangerous professions in the outdoors. Two out of the six described in the article are Coast Guard jobs. One is the Rescue Swimmer and the other SAR Pilot. Great to see such recognition.
I would think Logger and smoke jumper would make the list. Falling and setting chockers for a hi-line operation at a logging camp in the day was very very dangerouse work. I think the current helo's and training make the job a lot safer and its doccumented in the number of class A mishaps. Keep up the good safe work. Peace, Dick
Yes, the smoke jumper is on the list. Along with the Coast Guard jobs, the others were: professional hunter, commercial fisherman, conservation officer, and bush pilot. Strange list?
I can recall the the conservation officers was a very dangerouse job because you would be going after armed poachers who had a lot to loose by being caught. In the bush its very easy to just vanish with out a trace. I'm surprised logging didn't make the list as I remember it was very dangerouse in my days up in alaska. Maybe now that its all mechanized its less dangerouse than when crews would go out and cut by chain saw and haul logs by cable to the river or sea to raft up again by hand and haul to the pulp mills etc...
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They seriously missed some occupations ... it's been my experience that the Beaver Wrangler, the Heifer Prodder, the Hogger Monger and the Coyote Researcher all have extreme risks of getting life-long entrapment and a denial of freedom.
We had some abalone divers that would go out and fish alone with a gas compressor providing air for long dives in killer whale infested rocky shoals. Just getting to thier dive sites in small 22' open center consoles in the gulf of alsaka was dangerouse, made more so by the fact that a lot did it alone. I'm thinking a Denali climbing guide, climbing Mt Hunter,Foraker, or Devils Thumb should have been somewhere in the list. peace, Dick
The choices on the Outdoor Life poll aren't very inclusive. I always heard that Taxi Cab Driving is one of the most dangerous jobs.
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Most Dangerous Jobs
------------------------------------------------------ Which jobs result in the most fatalities? How do they compare to the average job?
* Relative Risk Rate is the fatality rate for a given group divided by the fatality rate for all workers. A rate of 2.0 means the worker is twice as likely as the average worker to die on the job.
Occupation Relative Risk* Leading Fatal Event
Average All Jobs 1.0 Homicide and Accidents
Fishers 21.3 Drowning
Timber Cutters 20.6 Struck by Object
Airplane Pilots 19.9 Airplane Crashes
Structural Metal Workers 13.1 Falls
Taxi Cab Drivers 9.5 Homicide
Construction Workers 8.1 Vehicular, Falls
Roofers 5.9 Falls
Electric Power Installers/Repairers 5.7 Electrocution
