Some jobs leap to mind as dangerous, including police officer, firefighter, or in current times, front-line healthcare worker. They also work in dams, spillways, and other underwater infrastructure. In the United States in 2018, fatal accidents involving lumberjacks and loggers exceeded an average of 135 per 100,000 workers. In the 1970s, construction of the World Trade Center led to 60 deaths among the workers. Many of the injuries and deaths are attributed to poor communication and inadequate use of safety devices, such as hardhats and safety lines.

Biographics – History, One Life at a Time. Their services are required in the shipbuilding and repair industries; constructing and maintaining underwater pipelines, and conduits for communication cables.

New York’s One World Trade Center saw only two reported fatalities during construction, but dozens of accidents in which workers were permanently disabled, Tangled lines trip busy crewmen leading to falls, items swinging overhead make contact with human skulls, and there is the constant threat of cuts. They also suffered from a sense of being trapped within a profession by their training, which rendered them unable to consider career alternatives. Oilfield workers ashore, and on off-shore oil platforms around the world, operate in professions among the most dangerous in the world. The fatality rate was normalized by adjusting the number of fatalities by employment in each profession. Many of the injuries and deaths are attributed to poor communication and inadequate use of safety devices, such as hardhats and safety lines. Dealing with dangerous and unpredictable people is a scar reality that comes with the profession. Falling from collection trucks is one danger faced by trash collectors. The danger comes from collapses of partially completed construction (or deconstruction), electrical lines and cables, and swinging steel beams and other components. After all, touting passenger comfort and the entire airport experience nowadays isn’t too convincing to prospective customers. Likewise, most factory jobs are much safer than they once were, with some of the most dangerous jobs replaced by automation. One danger comes from being suspended from the tree being cut, taking it down in sections, with the worker exposed to the whipping of the tree as the upper section separates and falls.

Railroads were once among the most dangerous areas to work in the world, though improvements in equipment and safety regulations changed that in the mid-to-late 20th century.

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