Definitely the list and the details are on point 💯👌🏻 i think also factory work has it's own danger and challenges , not so much on the big company but rather on the small family run business
As a 19 year old I started in the logging industry in coastal BC in 1965. At that time and for years before there were typically around 70 fatal per year in an industry employing less than 60,000. And at least 10x the number of injuries, many very severe. Now thanks to most workers being in a machine of some kind it is dramatically less, but hand falling for helicopter logging is still very dangerous work and pays accordingly. Now the fatality rate is down to around 10 or less per year, but the employment is less than 15,000.
Back in 1971 I got a very brief :)> job running a metal stamping machine. They actually wanted me to REPEATEDLY put my fingers into a running machine (while it was going up and down) that would crush my fingers if my timing was even a little bit off. Of course I refused, so was fired. But I still have all my fingers!!!
Very informative! Never would’ve imagined that logging has twice the rate as roofing. Thank you for being able to capture such valuable information into a format and presentation that is easy to combine with company and classroom training!
Thank you for your video! Risk is part of every job, just glad for the most part, the occupations mentioned have gotten safer since the adoption of safety standards and regulatory agencies like OSHA and their state counterparts have helped immensely over the years. Common sense, self preservation, and watching out for your fellow workers has also helped over the years. 😀
Little surprised that oil field jobs didn’t make the top ten (but that is certainly a good thing). I worked as an oil field roughneck on summer breaks during college years. On a land rig I got hit by a spinning chain that weirdly looped low even though I had my hard hat brim tilted low. That chain packs a lot of force as it knocked me on my butt - got stitches and a slight permanent scar. The when working offshore, a new hire coworker got killed. No fault of his - was an equipment failure. I also worked the derrick-hand position when the usual guy doing that got an injury that he needed some time to heel. A more senior worker than me took his spot, but on two occasions he fell off the board and was dangling on the ten ft safety cable. After that he refused to work it any longer - so I took the spot. I never fell off the board like he did but on a couple of occasions I lost a stand of drill collars (much heavier than ordinary drill pipe stand). I had to get out of the safety harness, crawl across the derrick structure and wrestle the stand of collars back to where it needed to be racked. And it’s causing a delay that everyone is waiting on. Can be a tense job. But having multiple sorties of naval carrier jets go overhead at low altitude was cool - and watching the carrier go steaming by in close proximity to the rig. Those behemoths can move very fast on the water as I saw a lot of other vessel traffic to compare to. And some rig maintenance shifts where I was down close to the water and then having a pod of dolphins hang out.
Worked two places in the oil field in Alaska in the 80s and at each one we had a fatality. I also know a few people that died in aircraft crashes. Some in their own aircraft and others being flown to job sites for work.
I love using your safety training videos. This is very good and I will be adding to my safety training along with the OSHA fines. very very GOOD. Many Thanks Cathy
I was an ‘road technician’ my entire career. Usually spent 6-10 hours on the road, repair or install machinery in crazy environments every day. I guess I’m lucky I made it to 66 lol
Have to point out: For most risks on most jobs, you can cut them at least in half for yourself by thinking, paying attention, and refusing to do what doesn't make sense. You usually don't HAVE to drive a steel truck on ice, so don't. Loggers have seen N ways to get killed, but can choose not to do those things, for the most part. Especially, there are good people to work with, and others somewhat less good. Whatever N in 100k is, you want to be in the 100k - N set, not the N set.
Reckon the reason folks in these trades werent so freaked out during the covid scare, is we saw it has waaaay less risky than just going to work. Office twitchits whose worst risk is a paper cut or broken A/C would have a different perspective.
A Wrecker operator is extremely dangerous it doesn't matter if you pick up cars on the road or are a Repo agent. People don't respect us on the roads, and if you are taking assets back for a Bank because someone didn't pay some of those think they own it before paying it off? Nope you don't own it!. I had a X wife's dad who drove a Dump truck for a Quarry sure it has risks but all he did for 8 hours was get loaded and drive across the street and dump Boring!!! He had the nerve to say wrecker operators were Bums all of them? Until his car broke down and I was dispatched to him! I had no idea till I got there he hit a Bump in his Ford tripped the Fuel cut off in the truck! I pushed the button and didn't even know his car had a s said have a nice day laughing inside, I wanted to say something else but being a professional I bit my tongue 😅 he knew I was laughing at him inside!
The takeaway here. Cops and fireman don't make this list, but I have never seen a televised funeral parade for a roofer or visited the tomb of the unknown miner. Some years, cab drivers and party store clerks make the top ten. I have actually worked five of these jobs over the years, but fortunately still have all of my parts.
Yeah, always makes me cringe when you see the TV funerals for cops or firefighters. Often thousands of other cops or firemen... all on the payroll while attending.
Your title does say blue collar workers. In the top ten are taxi drivers and convenience store workers along with food delivery workers. The reason, robberies. Just check your history on newspapers and see how many pizza delivery workers have been set up at night and shot. Farming, ranching and commercial fisherman have always been high.
It depends on where you source your information. Taxi drivers and convenience store workers definitely have a lot of risk but they have more assaults and injuries than fatalities so I think that's why they didn't make the top 10 this year.
Your video made me think. Where would driving truck in a war zone fit in this list? When I was on a convoy in Iraq. We had three guys killed and six injured from gun shot wounds. The three killed were civilians. The three of us injured were civilians. The three other injured were military gunners, in gun trucks. I know a lot more guys who had been shot, while working there as civilians.
Tree climbers that do powerline clearance hazard and storm damage Are beyond simple logging in combined risks . Ya today with fiberglass boom trucks and cranes it is a bit safer. However I did residential work mostly alone, and Line clearance 35+ yrs ago.. Git iut lucky with a blown cruciate ligament ( grafted) knee damages, And multiple arthritis issues .. Still enjoy working with trees, but mostly pulling invasives up by their roots n occassional takedowns.
Who'd a thunk I was a Johnny dangerous I worked roofing Several construction jobs (siding brick work block work cabinetry) truck driver & logging .... it's a wonder I'm still breathing & takin up space ... But my body is very screwed up
Automotive detailer should be on the list we deal in mold ,rotten food, and clean people's brains off the headliners windshields and out of cup holder's not to mention the blood out of seats 😫
It didn't make the list this year but it definitely does in other years. Some of these professions with fewer people drop off the list periodically which is a good thing.
You are correct in some years! That one doesn't always make the list each year because it's a small profession but on the years they have fatalities they are right up at the top.
You know what’s more dangerous than logging? Logging in a forest fire. Try being a sawyer on a Wildland firefighting crew. My instructor handed me a chainsaw once and said. “ this is a time bomb, every minute you hold it, is a minute closer to it killing you”. That’s considered a pep talk in the woods.
Yeah, but you're only actually in danger for at most a few days a year. Try tree falling every day of the week for a whole year. I've done both. Wildland Firefighting these days is so covered in safety meetings and lawyer fencing you're rarely actually exposed to real danger. Its all about the agency not getting sued. Believe me logging is much more dangerous.
Well, I know why i can't win the lottery now. My life has been full of #6 #4 & #2. Topped of with a 22 year stint in the army infantry. I used all my luck up just staying alive.
I have one question for you. Did you lump in private pilot license with commercial pilots? If you did then you are putting non-working people with working people.
I find it inspirational that feminists are fighting tooth and nail for access to these 'glass cellar' jobs rather than the cushy C-Suite glass penthouse jobs on the other side of the 'glass ceiling'. Oh, wait.
Hi everyone! What are your thoughts on the top 10 most dangerous jobs? Were they what you expected?
Definitely the list and the details are on point 💯👌🏻 i think also factory work has it's own danger and challenges , not so much on the big company but rather on the small family run business
I was surprised trucking wasn't higher. This was very informative. Thanks!
There are three things all wise men fear: a storm at sea, a bear protecting her cubs, and the sound of a tree falling in the woods.
I thought commercial divers were in there somewhere.
Flight Engineers??? Unless you’re flying a B-52 or a KC-135, I don’t think planes have had flight engineers for a long, long time.
As a 19 year old I started in the logging industry in coastal BC in 1965. At that time and for years before there were typically around 70 fatal per year in an industry employing less than 60,000. And at least 10x the number of injuries, many very severe. Now thanks to most workers being in a machine of some kind it is dramatically less, but hand falling for helicopter logging is still very dangerous work and pays accordingly. Now the fatality rate is down to around 10 or less per year, but the employment is less than 15,000.
oh yeah
What a great video Rachel!!! I LOVED IT!!!
As a blue collar worker, I knew about all these. But electricians didnt make the list which surprised me but Im glad theyre being safer
Electrician is a construction trade
It's usually more of a controlled environment unless it's outside work. These occupations you can do everything "right" and still die.
Back in 1971 I got a very brief :)> job running a metal stamping machine. They actually wanted me to REPEATEDLY put my fingers into a running machine (while it was going up and down) that would crush my fingers if my timing was even a little bit off. Of course I refused, so was fired. But I still have all my fingers!!!
Very informative! Never would’ve imagined that logging has twice the rate as roofing.
Thank you for being able to capture such valuable information into a format and presentation that is easy to combine with company and classroom training!
You bet! I'm glad it was helpful!
NOT suprising, law enforcement didn't make the list
“I’m going home at the end of my shift!”
“To hide and pretend”
It's for officer safety!
#24
Never even been in the top 20.
Thank you for your video! Risk is part of every job, just glad for the most part, the occupations mentioned have gotten safer since the adoption of safety standards and regulatory agencies like OSHA and their state counterparts have helped immensely over the years. Common sense, self preservation, and watching out for your fellow workers has also helped over the years. 😀
Definitely! I'm glad to see progress.
Love the men and women who do these jobs! They're keeping our world running!
Another great video......thank you 🙂
I guess military jobs aren't included but working on the flight deck has got to be one of the most dangerous jobs out there. FLY NAVY!!!
I only included civilian jobs in this one but it'd be really interesting to look at the military.
Great content!
I agree with the logging being number 1. Just had a close call last week
I am happy to say that I worked in the woods for 33 years and hired many men and had very few injuries and no fatalities.
That's great! My dad is a logger and most of his crew in their 60's. They've all seen a lot but thankfully they all have had good, long careers.
Thanks for educating us :) you da bombbbbb
Anyone notice the glaringly obvious occupation we were all looking for in this list, because if you ask them, they’re sooo endangered…Cops.
Cop (criminal of police)
Or firefighters... The urban TV heroes.
Little surprised that oil field jobs didn’t make the top ten (but that is certainly a good thing). I worked as an oil field roughneck on summer breaks during college years. On a land rig I got hit by a spinning chain that weirdly looped low even though I had my hard hat brim tilted low. That chain packs a lot of force as it knocked me on my butt - got stitches and a slight permanent scar.
The when working offshore, a new hire coworker got killed. No fault of his - was an equipment failure.
I also worked the derrick-hand position when the usual guy doing that got an injury that he needed some time to heel. A more senior worker than me took his spot, but on two occasions he fell off the board and was dangling on the ten ft safety cable. After that he refused to work it any longer - so I took the spot. I never fell off the board like he did but on a couple of occasions I lost a stand of drill collars (much heavier than ordinary drill pipe stand). I had to get out of the safety harness, crawl across the derrick structure and wrestle the stand of collars back to where it needed to be racked. And it’s causing a delay that everyone is waiting on. Can be a tense job.
But having multiple sorties of naval carrier jets go overhead at low altitude was cool - and watching the carrier go steaming by in close proximity to the rig. Those behemoths can move very fast on the water as I saw a lot of other vessel traffic to compare to. And some rig maintenance shifts where I was down close to the water and then having a pod of dolphins hang out.
Worked two places in the oil field in Alaska in the 80s and at each one we had a fatality. I also know a few people that died in aircraft crashes. Some in their own aircraft and others being flown to job sites for work.
Wildddd about the logging industry. Who knew it was so risky.
I love using your safety training videos. This is very good and I will be adding to my safety training along with the OSHA fines. very very GOOD. Many Thanks Cathy
Thanks so much! I'm glad they are helpful!
I've done #'s 6, 3 both, and 1
wow i should have not made it to 72, was residential roofer for 23 years and then Semi driver for 21 years
Me too- up on the roof for 40+years and 73 now,afew aches and pains but self employed beats anything else I could have done
Yeah Rachel no kidding on the logging safety. I did that.
I was an ‘road technician’ my entire career. Usually spent 6-10 hours on the road, repair or install machinery in crazy environments every day.
I guess I’m lucky I made it to 66 lol
Have to point out:
For most risks on most jobs, you can cut them at least in half for yourself by thinking, paying attention, and refusing to do what doesn't make sense. You usually don't HAVE to drive a steel truck on ice, so don't. Loggers have seen N ways to get killed, but can choose not to do those things, for the most part. Especially, there are good people to work with, and others somewhat less good. Whatever N in 100k is, you want to be in the 100k - N set, not the N set.
I worked in several of those jobs!
Well, my brother almost died from a logging accident and I almost died in a truck wreck doing road construction, my other brother wrote computer code.
Tower climbing, take a look at those videos
They're amazing to watch! This list changes every year though so I think they are on there some years.
Commercial diving (surface supplied) is a very dangerous job as well. But not on the list.
Reckon the reason folks in these trades werent so freaked out during the covid scare, is we saw it has waaaay less risky than just going to work. Office twitchits whose worst risk is a paper cut or broken A/C would have a different perspective.
I think the people I see in these jobs often really enjoy their work. They're okay with managing some risk to do what they like.
God damn. She's absolutely GORGEOUS.
A Wrecker operator is extremely dangerous it doesn't matter if you pick up cars on the road or are a Repo agent. People don't respect us on the roads, and if you are taking assets back for a Bank because someone didn't pay some of those think they own it before paying it off? Nope you don't own it!. I had a X wife's dad who drove a Dump truck for a Quarry sure it has risks but all he did for 8 hours was get loaded and drive across the street and dump Boring!!! He had the nerve to say wrecker operators were Bums all of them? Until his car broke down and I was dispatched to him! I had no idea till I got there he hit a Bump in his Ford tripped the Fuel cut off in the truck! I pushed the button and didn't even know his car had a s said have a nice day laughing inside, I wanted to say something else but being a professional I bit my tongue 😅 he knew I was laughing at him inside!
Were does infantry fall in the list?
Logger, sometimes those trees just don’t fall where one wants them to land.
The takeaway here. Cops and fireman don't make this list, but I have never seen a televised funeral parade for a roofer or visited the tomb of the unknown miner. Some years, cab drivers and party store clerks make the top ten. I have actually worked five of these jobs over the years, but fortunately still have all of my parts.
Yeah, always makes me cringe when you see the TV funerals for cops or firefighters. Often thousands of other cops or firemen... all on the payroll while attending.
What about tow truck drivers? Or are they just counted in the truck drivers? Would like a much bigger list. Thank you
I think they're probably counted in with truck drivers since it covers smaller trucks.
Your title does say blue collar workers. In the top ten are taxi drivers and convenience store workers along with food delivery workers. The reason, robberies. Just check your history on newspapers and see how many pizza delivery workers have been set up at night and shot. Farming, ranching and commercial fisherman have always been high.
It depends on where you source your information. Taxi drivers and convenience store workers definitely have a lot of risk but they have more assaults and injuries than fatalities so I think that's why they didn't make the top 10 this year.
Your video made me think. Where would driving truck in a war zone fit in this list? When I was on a convoy in Iraq. We had three guys killed and six injured from gun shot wounds. The three killed were civilians. The three of us injured were civilians. The three other injured were military gunners, in gun trucks. I know a lot more guys who had been shot, while working there as civilians.
Made number 4 almost bought the farm a few times
Tree climbers that do powerline clearance hazard and storm damage
Are beyond simple logging in combined risks .
Ya today with fiberglass boom trucks and cranes it is a bit safer. However I did residential work mostly alone,
and Line clearance 35+ yrs ago..
Git iut lucky with a blown cruciate ligament ( grafted) knee damages,
And multiple arthritis issues ..
Still enjoy working with trees, but mostly pulling invasives up by their roots n occassional takedowns.
Im 55, and can TELL You,....
Just being BORN in this Country is dangerous,....
How many children have a mom named KAREN?
SEE?!
PRACTICALLY FATAL😂
I surprised oil and gas workers isn't mentioned in this. oops, you send it at the end.
Hm. Not firefighters either? Wow!
what about oilfield workers
I've wondered that too but they didn't make the list. I'm gonna do some digging and see if it's safer than I thought or if it's just an unusual year.
Who'd a thunk I was a Johnny dangerous I worked roofing
Several construction jobs (siding brick work block work cabinetry) truck driver & logging .... it's a wonder I'm still breathing & takin up space ...
But my body is very screwed up
I guess being a liquor store clerk is a safe job now.
Automotive detailer should be on the list we deal in mold ,rotten food, and clean people's brains off the headliners windshields and out of cup holder's not to mention the blood out of seats 😫
You also left out , Electrical linemen
It didn't make the list this year but it definitely does in other years. Some of these professions with fewer people drop off the list periodically which is a good thing.
Wrong 1- Underwater Welders
You are correct in some years! That one doesn't always make the list each year because it's a small profession but on the years they have fatalities they are right up at the top.
Ps I’m loving the red shirt and lips!
You know what’s more dangerous than logging? Logging in a forest fire. Try being a sawyer on a Wildland firefighting crew. My instructor handed me a chainsaw once and said. “ this is a time bomb, every minute you hold it, is a minute closer to it killing you”. That’s considered a pep talk in the woods.
Yeah, but you're only actually in danger for at most a few days a year. Try tree falling every day of the week for a whole year. I've done both. Wildland Firefighting these days is so covered in safety meetings and lawyer fencing you're rarely actually exposed to real danger. Its all about the agency not getting sued. Believe me logging is much more dangerous.
@ actually agree. What’s really the difference anyway, most of the fallers on fire crews are obviously loggers.
Well, I know why i can't win the lottery now.
My life has been full of #6 #4 & #2. Topped of with a 22 year stint in the army infantry. I used all my luck up just staying alive.
what about road traffic control people
Power line workers.
I have one question for you. Did you lump in private pilot license with commercial pilots? If you did then you are putting non-working people with working people.
Hi Rachel. 🤭
Too bad you didn’t show any iron workers.
Everybody wants their job to be the most dangerous. What about……..?
Well, electrical utility workers weren’t on that list.
The most remarkable thing about the jobs in this list is that they're totally dominated by feminist women.
6ou know what's a blue collar everyone seems to ignore? Police.
It's not as dangerous as they want you to believe. No one is ignoring, they didn't make the top 10.
@@r90fan1Or 20.
I noticed that law enforcement wasn't even mentioned.
🤔 so pay attention cause you can die pretty much any time 🤷♂️ and you are 60ish your wondering how did I manage to survive.
Yeah, some of these jobs require a lot more attention and skill to keep yourself safe.
No one can fix stupid
Number 3 is complete bull$hit
Trash workers that’s a joke
Injury rates aside, I believe when I weld on live natural gas pipelines that’s a bit more dangerous than most of these….😂
Haha, yes. You may be right.
I find it inspirational that feminists are fighting tooth and nail for access to these 'glass cellar' jobs rather than the cushy C-Suite glass penthouse jobs on the other side of the 'glass ceiling'.
Oh, wait.
You're so clever. Let's be besties.