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On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 17:16:43 -0400, Peter Flass
<peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Dave Garland <dave.g...@wizinfo.com> wrote:
>> On 7/13/2018 2:19 PM, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>> On Friday, July 13, 2018 at 12:04:58 PM UTC-4, Dave Garland wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Indeed not. In US labor statistics, every year the most dangerous job
>>>> is fisherman, and the next most dangerous job is logger. It's easy to
>>>> get killed doing that stuff.
>>> 
>>> There was talk that the most dangerous job in the U.S. was a
>>> convenience store clerk due to holdups and shootings.
>>> 
>>> Other high risk jobs were said to be firefighter and coal miner.
>>> 
>>> 
>> They don't seem to have a category for "convenience store clerk", 
>> though "retail sales" as a group is of course pretty safe. 
>> Firefighters don't usually make the "top 10" list, and neither do 
>> miners. And they don't rank very small groups (the example they use is 
>> "elephant trainer", which does have a high fatality rate but very 
>> small numbers).
>> 
>> In order, for 2016, the most dangerous (fatality rate) US jobs were:
>> logger
>> fisherman
>> pilot
>> roofer
>> garbageman
>> ironworker
>> truck driver
>> farmer
>> construction worker
>> grounds maintenance worker
>> 
>> The list is mostly unchanged from prior years. Powerline workers are 
>> usually low on the list but I guess grounds maintenance guys had a bad 
>> year. Vehicle accidents, heavy machinery, and high places are all killers.
>> 
>> 
>
>Pilot? I'm surprised, it seems commercial pilots would have a pretty fair
>safety record; private pilots not so much. The rest make sense.

"Commercial pilot" covers the experience spectrum between 250 flight
hours and 1500 flight hours.  Airline pilots have to have a minimum of
1500 hours to get the license.  Commercial pilots (that is what the
license is called, "commercial", and contrary to popular belief they
can carry paying passengers) have to have 250 flight hours of
experience, which isn't a whole lot.

However military pilots also get paid to fly, even during training,
and given the performance of the aircraft that they fly, the
conditions under which they operate, and the fact that some of them
have to land on a boat, this can be quite dangerous leaving aside
enemy action.  I suspect that that skews the statistics.