Most Life-Threatening Jobs

[Tug Driver]

**congrats guys, we made it!!!

The Most Life-Threatening Jobs
According to BLS data, the following jobs had some of the highest fatality rates for 2005:

Fishers and related fishing workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 118.4
Average salary: $29,000 per year

Logging workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 92.9
Average salary: $31,290 per year

Aircraft pilots and flight engineers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 66.9
Average salary: $135,040

Structural iron and steel workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 55.6
Average salary: $43,540

Refuse and recyclable material collectors
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 43.8
Average salary: $30,160

Farmers and ranchers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 41.1
Average salary: $39,720

Electrical power-line installers and repairers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 32.7
Average salary: $49,200

Truck drivers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 29.1
Average salary: $35,460 (for heavy or tractor-trailer drivers)

Miscellaneous agricultural workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 23.2
Average salary: $24,140

Construction laborers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 22.7
Average salary: $29,050

www.msn.com

 

[Prop2Jet]

Colgan will make that happen in 07! hahahahah

 

[Future Furlough]

Too tired to do the research tonight, but it would be interesting to see the break down of those fatalities, because they sure ain't coming from the airlilnes.

Stolen from a thread from a couple of weeks ago:

104000 pilots in the FAA database that have the right certificates to work in a 121 airline (104512 as of 4/11/07).

92500 pilots in part 121 airlines currently working. That leaves 11500 ATP/first class and Commercial/ME/Instr/1st class for all the various part 135, FBO, corporate, misc flying.

Including furloughees there are 97000 pilots employed, but most of the furloughees have either found other flying jobs or have left the business.

The count of 104000 total pilots has not changed 0.5% up or down in the past three years.

These stats are very similar to 1998-1999.

 

[trip]

Anyone else notice the dismal average salary's?

 

[DannyNoonan]

how in the heLL do they figure out the median salary??????

they prob take astronauts and ups pilots

 

[Black Hawk]

Anyone else notice the dismal average salary's?

Most of the pilots fatatities are from GA. If they considered general aviation separately from major airline aviation we'd probably see the same dismal salary statistics.



Flyers Flyers had a safer year, with their fatalities dropping nearly 26 percent to 81. That still was enough to qualify the profession as the third-most dangerous with a rate of 66.9 per 100,000.

 

[Beech Balls]

Colgan will make that happen in 07! hahahahah

I don't know if you really realize how stupid that comment was. Thanks.
This might hurt people here that have not forgotten what happened in HYA. Thanks for your immature and worthless input.

 

[snap145]

that can't be right....66 in every 100,000 pilots die....i dont believe this figure could possible be correct...

 

[J and E's Daddy]

Where do they get those salary figures from?

 

[siucavflight]

Where do they get those salary figures from?

SKW.>

 

[Secret Squirrel]

That figure actually incorporates 135 and 121. If you look at the fatalities in 135 especially in Alaska that is where they get those skewed figures. Lots of my friends in AK in those statistics.

 

[flythere]

**congrats guys, we made it!!!

The Most Life-Threatening Jobs
According to BLS data, the following jobs had some of the highest fatality rates for 2005:

Fishers and related fishing workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 118.4
Average salary: $29,000 per year

Miscellaneous agricultural workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 23.2
Average salary: $24,140


It figures, a bait-boy on a fishing boat and the migrant hand on the farm makes more money per year then a first year FO at Lakes or a 2nd yr capt!!

 

[relief tube]

yeah, mostly Alaska fatalities....it's a weird stat that they never really elaborate on.

 

[Soverytired]

If they're talking about OTJ injuries, that seems a little ridiculous.

If they're talking about long term health problems due to poor diet, extremely stressful schedules (ie not a 9-5 job), sleeping the back of planes with a board and so forth, I think the article is spot on.

 

[SBD]

They forget to mention individually the pilots at MESA, CHQ, and SKYW who might get beat down when other crew members see them in the terminals. Might as well get it started.

 

[SSDD]

Hey, SBD,

Not happening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A lot of tough talk from behind the keyboard. Maybe a beotch case of radio interference but that's about it.

 

[SBD]

SSDD, I know. A lot of keyboard gangsters on this site.

 

[Erlanger]

Most of the deaths in the airline industry is from the drive, to and from the airport and the skin cancer we get after 30 years.

 

[Groundskprwilly]

Death due to blunt force trauma of head agaist wall.

 

[DannyNoonan]

theres really nothing to worry about...statistically you're more likely to get killed on the WAY to the airport! You know like in a head on crash, or flying off a cliff, or getting trapped under a gas truck! Thats the worst!