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Related: About this forumThe State Of America's Deadly Jobs, In 9 Charts
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The State Of America's Deadly Jobs, In 9 ChartsFrom May. I suspect that if you exclude fatalities in Alaska, that fatality rate for aircraft pilots and flight engineers drops way off.
As for the electric power-line installers and repairers, OSHA published new standards for them in April:
29 CFR Parts 1910 and 1926 Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution; Electrical Protective Equipment; Final Rule
Alissa Scheller alissa.scheller@huffingtonpost.com
Posted: 05/16/2014 7:58 am EDT Updated: 05/16/2014 4:59 pm EDT
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Workplace deaths have fallen dramatically since safety laws were implemented in the 1970s. But in the last few years, the decline has flatlined. Especially in high-fatality industries like mining, construction and oil and gas extraction, job sites still can be deadly places. About 4,600 workers died on the job in 2012, according to a recent report from the AFL-CIO labor federation, and North Dakota was by far the deadliest state for workers, with a fatality rate of 17.7 per 100,000 (the national rate was 3.4).
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The State Of America's Deadly Jobs, In 9 Charts (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Dec 2014
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plcdude
(5,309 posts)1. police officers?
I wonder where they stand.
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)2. Not on the chart
OnlinePoker
(5,719 posts)3. In 2012, 126 Line of Duty deaths
In 2012 (the latest stats I could find), there were 780,000 police officers in the U.S. That comes to 16.15 deaths per 100,000.
http://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_police_officers