{"id":1482052,"date":"2024-08-07T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1482052"},"modified":"2024-08-07T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T07:00:00","slug":"these-are-the-most-dangerous-jobs-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/these-are-the-most-dangerous-jobs-in-the-us\/1482052\/","title":{"rendered":"These Are The Most Dangerous Jobs In The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">These Are The Most Dangerous Jobs In The US<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Some jobs inherently carry significant risks due to factors such as hazardous working conditions, exposure to harmful substances, and the physical demands of the tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, work injuries can sometimes be fatal, with the the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recording\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cfoi.nr0.htm\">5,486<\/a>\u00a0fatal work injuries in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>2022 saw a 5.7% increase from the 5,190 fatal work injuries in 2021, and meant that a worker died every 96 minutes from a work-related injury that year.<\/p>\n<p>This graphic,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/ranked-the-most-dangerous-jobs-in-the-united-states\/\"> via Visual Capitalist&#8217;s Kayla Zhu, <\/a>visualizes the six occupations in the U.S. with the highest rates of fatal work injuries per 100,000 full-time workers, and their number of fatal work injuries in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/The-Most-Dangerous-Jobs_website.jpg?itok=RO-GbOKg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The figures come from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/charts\/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries\/civilian-occupations-with-high-fatal-work-injury-rates.htm\">U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>\u00a0and are updated as of December 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>What are the Most Dangerous Jobs in the United States?<\/h2>\n<p>Some of the most dangerous jobs in the U.S. involve significant physical labor and working in hazardous environments, like loggers, roofers, and fishing and hunting workers.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these jobs also are usually done in isolated areas, like logging and fishing, where access to emergency medical attention is limited.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2024-08-05_14-57-13.jpg?itok=sBHzBgAF\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While logging workers saw the highest fatal work injury rate, over 1,000 truck drivers died due to work injuries in 2022\u2014the most fatalities out of any occupation.<\/p>\n<p>Operating extremely large vehicles for many hours, often in remote and unfamiliar areas, are some factors that contribute to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/siegfriedandjensen.com\/blog\/truck-drivers-at-higher-risk-of-workplace-injury-and-death\/\">dangerous<\/a>\u00a0nature of truck driving as an occupation.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation incidents remained the most frequent type of fatal event accounting for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/pdf\/cfoi.pdf\">38%<\/a>\u00a0of all occupational fatalities. In 2022, there were 2,066 fatal injuries from transportation incidents, a 4.2% increase from 1,982 in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Tue, 08\/06\/2024 &#8211; 23:00<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/these-are-most-dangerous-jobs-us\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/these-are-most-dangerous-jobs-us<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These Are The Most Dangerous Jobs In The US Some jobs inherently carry significant risks due to factors such as hazardous working conditions, exposure to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1482053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}