From:
http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fatalities-data/causes.html
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-how many times have you heard that planes are safer than automobiles? Yet aircraft pilots die at almost 3 times the rate of truckers, and 4 times the rate of taxi drivers and chauffeurs. Food for thought.
[/quote] Yet statistically itâs still true that planes are safer than automobiles.
Also found this from the National Safety Council.
The good news, Auto accident deaths were bumped down one place, the bad news, it was replaced with unintentional poisoning. Thanks a lot prescription painkillers.
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These stats donât appear to include jobs which are either indistinguishable from death or make one envious of those who have escaped via this method.
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Mob member?
As @stinkinbadgers points out - small aircraft are far more dangerous than big commercial passenger planes. And only a small minority of pilots fly big passenger jets. Most of them fly crop dusters, bush planes, training planes (copiloting small planes beside inexperienced pilots every day, yikes), water bombers, helicopters of various descriptions, etc.
Also, how many (if any) of the shootings were âintentionalâ in that the shooter intended to shoot someone, but âaccidentalâ in that they intended to shoot someone else (particularly, being by a fellow officer who was aiming at a non-officer).
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So far as mortality rates for prostitution go:
Potterat, J. J., Brewer, D. D., Muth, S. Q., Rothenberg, R. B., Woodhouse, D. E., Muth, J. B., . . . Brody, S. (2004). Mortality in a long-term open cohort of prostitute women. American journal of epidemiology, 159(8), 778-785.
ABSTRACT:
In this study, the authors estimated overall and cause-specific mortality among prostitute women. They recorded information on prostitute women identified by police and health department surveillance in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from 1967 to 1999. The authors assessed cause-specific mortality in this open cohort of 1,969 women using the Social Security Death Index and the National Death Index, augmented by individual investigations. They identified 117 definite or probable deaths and had sufficient information on 100 to calculate a crude mortality rate (CMR) of 391 per 100,000 (95% confidence interval (CI): 314, 471). In comparison with the general population, the standardized mortality ratio (SMR), adjusted for age and race, was 1.9 (95% CI: 1.5, 2.3). For the period of presumed active prostitution only, the CMR was 459 per 100,000 (95% CI: 246, 695) and the SMR was 5.9 (95% CI: 3.2, 9.0). Violence and drug use were the predominant causes of death, both during periods of prostitution and during the whole observation period. The CMR for death by homicide among active prostitutes was 229 per 100,000 (95% CI: 79, 378), and the SMR was 17.7 (95% CI: 6.2, 29.3). Deaths from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome occurred exclusively among prostitutes who admitted to injecting drug use or were inferred to have a history of it.
âŚwhich would put prostitute women at the top of the chart of most dangerous jobs in America.
Itâs reputedly much safer downunder, as Australia and New Zealand have decriminalised.
Train yard dudes?
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Only with fishermen of the fabled redwood-trout.
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jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezus kerrrrrist O_o
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HOLY GOB SHITE!!!
Can you see he has hearing protection, so he likely knows what is happening?
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Hearing protection, but no âGetting smashed like a license plate on the factory lineâ protection?
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How about POTUS?
Misc. Extraction is so dangerous because you never know whatâs gonna squeeze out of there. Cotton candy? Rattlesnakes? Cold sake? Magma? The nice thing is each day is different.
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Huh, and here I was thinking Misc. Extraction was a farm job, what with milking the cows, mucking the barn, and collecting âsamplesâ from the best horses and bullsâŚ
Come to think of it, a lot of stuff done on a farm could be considered âextractionâ
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I didnât know a dentistâs job is so full of surprises!
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Well⌠Dentists do have an absurdly and inexplicably high rate of suicide compared with other high-skill and education professions.
My guess is that dentist are abnormally suicidal because they know they cause lots of people a lot of pain. That canât be good for oneâs own self-esteem, even though the work they do is both important, and helps people feel less pain.
Imagine if your only job was sitting around doing nothing until someone dragged someone in to have a compound fracture set, then you had to set it and stitch them up with only partially or sometimes completely ineffective anesthesia, and you had to do it a dozen times a day.
Thatâd be pretty depressing to me. Being seen as the âpain doctorââŚ
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Iâm not sure that dentists get more depressed than other people, but they do have very easy access to the means for a certain and pain free death.
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