This is a rate of fatality of 12.6 sworn on-duty deaths per 100,000. Sounds bad, right? Wrong. If youre a logger, you have a fatality rate ten times that of a cop. A fisherman? Almost ten times -- 117 per 100,000. A pilot? 53.4 per 100,000. Yes, really -- its about four times as dangerous to fly a plane or chopper than be a cop. The guy who puts your roof on? 40.5 per 100,000 -- about three times as dangerous. How about iron workers -- you know, the guys who put up the buildings you work in? Yeah, those dudes. Three times the risk of a cop in dying, most from falls, being crushed by heavy materials or welding accidents. Your garbage man has a risk of death twice that of a cop. Why? He gets hit by cars or crushed by heavy equipment (yes, it would suck to get caught in that trash compactor in the garbage truck!)
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:18:22 +0000
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