Most dangerous federal jobs: Postal service tops list

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Most dangerous federal jobs: Postal service tops list
http://www.federaltimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013309090007

Sep. 9, 2013 - 06:00AM | By ANDY MEDICI

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In terms of federal jobs, postal work is by far the most dangerous: Last year, postal employees constituted a third of all federal civilian employees in the United States who died on the job, according to preliminary numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In 2012, 54 feds were killed on the job, a sharp jump from 41 in 2011. Postal workers made up 18 of those in 2012, up from 15 in 2011. The numbers include federal civilian employees within the United States and not civilians overseas, such as Foreign Service or intelligence workers, and they exclude employees who died because of an illness or who are military personnel.
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Workplace fatalities for civilian employees at the Defense Department fell from 15 in fiscal 2007 to seven in 2011 and down to four in 2012, out of about 800,000 employees, according to DoD.

DoD spokesman Mark Wright said leaders across the department work continuously to protect their employees from harm and have made significant improvements in workplace safety by promoting training and by identify possible workplace hazards and working to minimize those risks. The Defense Department also tracks incidents and injuries to identify areas of higher risk.

We've gone from 4 in all of 2012 to 13 in one day of 2013. I do not know how many other fatalities there have been in 2013.

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[One_Life_To_Give]

1. With only 2% the number of employee's

The 13,000 Federal Wildfire-Fighters have only 2% of the number of postal service workers. I think their death rate per worker is still considerably higher than that of most any other federal civilian job. Fishing and logging are the only 2 job's I am aware of with a higher mortality rate per worker.