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Loggers work with sharp-edged hand tools, and chainsaws in an environment of heavy machinery, overhead hoisting systems, and massive pieces of falling timber,sometimes at life-threatening heights.

59TOTALDEATHSIN 2013 91.3DEATH

RATE*

AVERAGE MEDIAN SALARY:

$33,630

43,900NUMBER OF JOBS

LOGGERS

Be careful Extreme hazard

A fisherman’s work environment is wet, sometimes icy and always located on a steel vessel constantly being tossed about by ocean forces. The implements of their job involve ropes, gaff hooks, heavily loaded baskets, nets swinging from cranes, and despair.

27TOTAL DEATHS IN 2013

Be careful Extreme hazard

AVERAGE MEDIAN SALARY:

$33,430

31,300NUMBER OF JOBS

FISHERMEN

75DEATHRATE*

Air travel may be statistically the safest mode of travel, but when things go wrong aboard an aircraft, they go all the way wrong. High velocities and altitudes that can be measured in miles make the prospect of surviving an aerial mishap very slim.

63TOTALDEATHSIN 2013

aircraftpilots

50.6

AVERAGE MEDIAN SALARY:

$98,410

104,100NUMBER OF JOBS

DEATHRATE*

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Imagine you’re an office worker except that your workstation sits atop the uneven terrain of a roof with unguarded edges. Suddenly that safety harness and those special boots seem like a really good idea, even though they don’t help with the filing of all those TPS reports. Right? And then it rains ...

69TOTALDEATHSIN 2013

ROOFERS

38.7AVERAGE MEDIAN SALARY:

$35,290 132,700NUMBER OF JOBS

DEATHRATE*

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The type of waste they collect may not stink, but their job safety statistics do. Clinging to the business end of a giant hydraulic compactor truck with poor driver’s rear-view visibility through traffic between one stop and the next, probably loses its nostalgic similarity to fire engines pretty quick.

33TOTALDEATHSIN 2013

recyclablematerialcollectors

33AVERAGE MEDIAN SALARY:

$32,720

116,460NUMBER OF JOBS

DEATHRATE*

Be careful Extreme hazard

The kind of equipment powerful enough to bore massive holes in the earth, and haul hundreds of metric tons of material in single loads seems dangerous enough. But for mining machine operators there’s the hole itself, and the explosives, and the pockets of toxic gas, and tremors, and cave-ins … yadda, yadda, yadda,it’s real dangerous.

16TOTALDEATHSIN 2013

MINING MACHINEOPERATORS

26.9

AVERAGE MEDIAN SALARY:

$50,820

12,180NUMBER OF JOBS

DEATHRATE*

Be careful Extreme hazard

We’re talking long-haul truckers, which means long days on the highway at all hours, in all kinds of traffic and weather conditions. Navigating 18 wheels and several tons of cargo through a sea of angsty clerks, accountants, and soccer moms, is by no means a safe working environment.

748TOTALDEATHSIN 2013

TRUCK DRIVERS

22AVERAGE MEDIAN SALARY:

$38,700 1,585,300NUMBER OF JOBS

DEATHRATE*

Be careful Extreme hazard

That old adage about getting back up on your horse after you’ve fallen only stands if you still do after making abrupt contact with the dirt. Then there’s the potential trampling, the tractor, or combine bearing down. Farmers and ranchers know the land. They also know that sometimes when the land comes up to meet you, it isn’t to say hi. It’s to say goodbye.

220TOTALDEATHSIN 2013

FARMERS& RANCHERS

21.8AVERAGE MEDIAN SALARY:

$69,300 930,600NUMBER OF JOBS

DEATHRATE*

Be careful Extreme hazard

Linemen rely on the quality of their emergency cable system in order to stay alive. Their job is to erect, and maintain power lines, sometimes hundreds of feet above the ground. From the deaths caused by electrocution to the deaths that result of a faulty fall arrest cable system, lineman workers have one of the deadliest jobs on earth

27TOTALDEATHSIN 2013

ElectricalpowerlineWorkers

21.5AVERAGE MEDIAN SALARY:

$64,170 111,350NUMBER OF JOBS

DEATHRATE*

Be careful Extreme hazard

Some cling to steel columns and beams hundreds of feet in the air, while others remain on the ground amongst the heavy machinery. There is danger in either case. Every year, hundreds of men and women die in construction accidents. From power tools to falling beams to extreme heights and too many hours, working in construction is an inherently dangerous job.

215TOTALDEATHSIN 2013

Constructionworkers

17.7AVERAGE MEDIAN SALARY:

$30,460 824,970NUMBER OF JOBS

DEATHRATE*

Be careful Extreme hazard

* Death rate is per 100,000 workers

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Sources:http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdfhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/kathryndill/2014/09/25/americas-10-deadliest-jobs/