Bad news! The number of workplace injuries increased from 2.2 million in 2021 to 2.3 million in 2022. However, the rate of injuries stayed the same:
The most dangerous occupation in 2022 was transportation and warehousing. Finance had the fewest injuries:
" Finance had the fewest injuries:" If you don't count the souls irrevocably lost
That's a self-inflicted injury; I suspect it doesn't count.
Or the STIs contracted during office parties. I suspect those are underreported.
How the hell is mining the 5th safest profession!! Whatever happened to black lung, cave ins, coal fires, and getting blown up because the industry uses stuff like dynamite to blow things up!
Construction is safer than wholesale trade (whatever that is) and accommodation??? Construction uses big ass machines, cranes, jackhammers, people working 100 stories up in the air, and also dynamite to blow things up.
...and also a lot of little things that contribute to OSHA accident data: nail guns, power drills and power saws, working on sloped roofs without proper restraint, falling through holes in the floor your co-workers just finished cutting... OSHA has a mighty long list of safety fails, most of which were preventable by normal caution.
Most mining these days is open pit, which is MUCH safer than underground mining. Further, coal mining, which is probably the most dangerous kind of mining, is declining, which means the safer hard-rock mining is a steadily increasing share of all mining.
I worked in a hard-rock open pit mine once. They didn't use dynamite but they did use ANFO in kiloton quantities. When a shot was about to be let off, the pit was entirely cleared of people and everybody within a couple of miles got under cover (it was almost unheard of for even the biggest shot to blow rocks out of the pit, but it was a possibility that was allowed for). The mine had been running at that time for nearly twenty years and nobody had ever been injured as a result of an explosion.
"The most dangerous occupation in 2022 was transportation and warehousing."
I don't think that's right. I think they overlooked "Rodeo cowboy." Bull riding, Bronc riding, Calf roping, even Rodeo Clown. I'd grab a steering wheel on an 18-wheeler or a forklift. I wouldn't grab a rope wrapped around a Brahman bull.
https://youtu.be/iLIOmrvCJAc
There's a bunch of unusual and dangerous jobs that aren't on the list. Stunt man for instance. Commercial diving for another instance. There's also a large and historically dangerous occupation that isn't on the list; logging.
Given that the labor market was still disrupted by covid in 2021, more than it was in 2022, a year-over-year increase may not be the most informative statistic. How about a comparison with 2019?
(And don't snark about miners working/not working from home) 😉
Hey, it's not totally a snark! Bitcoin miners can work from home. They just need a REALLY BIG computer setup.
Though working in Finance for 25 years, I have had the opportunity to tour a whole lot of semi dangerous workplaces, like steel mills, roof shingle plants, auto factories, paper mills, metal stamping plants, powdered metal forges, plastic mold injection plants, and offshore oil rigs (which included a harrowing ride to the airport in Mexico City, then a 6 seater private jet to the Gulf of Campeche, then a helicopter ride to multiple oil platforms, and the walk from the helipads on top of the rigs, using see-through metal staircases a few hundred feet above the water.
I was with you until that last part.
Working online brings in $285 dollars an hour for me. My best buddy shows me how to do this and makes $29,000 a month doing it, but I never realized it was real, visit the st03 following link to have.
A look at it-------------------------------------->>> https://paymoney74.blogspot.com/
No cops? Don't they whine the most about how dangerous their job is? Hard to believe cop is safer than finance.