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America's most dangerous jobs

Nearly half of all fatal work injuries occurred among workers who drive or move material around for a living. Truck drivers, forklift operators, trash collectors, and cabbies are all part of this group. Construction workers had 9 percent more fatalities. Of these, roofers recorded 94 deaths, a sharp increase from the 55 they incurred the year before. The highest rates of fatal injuries -- the most per worker employed -- occurred among loggers, pilots, and fishermen.
Survey: Loggers and fisherman still take the most risk; roofers record sharp increase in fatalities.
Ref. https://money.cnn.com/2005/08/26/pf/jobs_jeopardy/index.htm

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Bureau of Labor Statistics lists the 10 most dangerous jobs in America

A study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows which American jobs are the most potentially dangerous. Ref. Source 4

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So, I was going to start a thread about this but I looked and here it is. I want to add a job here… military.

Obviously the military is dangerous when we talk about deploying to a war zone. But it's dangerous during training too. I just relied to a thread about an Aussie soldier getting killed during training. I wanted to related two separate incidents that I know… one happened while I was present and one didn't.

While my unit was on the training site on Fort Bragg developed specifically to practice Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) we lost a soldier. Aptly, it's called the MOUT Site. MOUT is dangerous. We were conducting room clearing operations, which are very dangerous. It's done if groups of two or three. When in a group of three, the first person cooks off a grenade for two or three seconds and then tosses it in the room. BOOM. Then that person goes in and goes to the right, spraying the room with bullets. The next person goes in and goes to the left and sprays the room with bullets. The first is still firing. The third person goes between them in the middle. Any bad guys inside should be dead. This is how to do it when there aren't captives or prisoners. Well, on this day, the first guy went in and went to the right… and the second person went in and went to the right… and caught a round in his back and out his chest.

Now, my team was in a different building but we immediately heard the cease fire and wondered what was going on. When we left our building we saw immediately what happened. The kid was already on the ground with a medic working on him… but in truth, he was probably already dead. This is what happens when you train with live rounds… and you have to train with live ammo often to really keep up your proficiency.

The other incident happened to my old Platoon Sergeant in Alaska. He was transferred to Alaska and he took over the Pre-Ranger training program up there. One day he was on the grenade in a foxhole doing a live fire grenade range. The kid he had in the foxhole with him got scared when he pulled the pin and dropped the grenade. My buddy kicked it to the opposite side of the foxhole and threw the kids, who was frozen in fear, out of the hole. Then he jumped. The blast and some shrapnel hit his legs and lower abdomen. He lived and kept his legs but it messed him up pretty good.

The military is dangerous… all the time.

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Yes the military is a very dangerous job that is why we have an all volunteer Military. Everyone who signs up for the military is writing a blank check to the government p and including their life. While this may not mean anything to others it does mean a lot to those who have or are serving in the armed forces of this great nation.