"President of the United States" would crush the top rank!

:D :D but actually it makes sense!

Bad data. Where is trucking?

Data is from U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

Weren't loggers also reported as being the happiest/most overall satisfied workers in any industry as well? Where are the crab fishermen?

So where is truck driving?

I’m guessing Truck Driving is included in Driver/Sales & Truck Drivers.

"we find out that the number of deaths among truck drivers has increased by 16.3 percent since 2020" its addressed later in the article

In Austria almost half of the Presidents died in office.

A job which is way down the list: being a cop. And most of the danger there is just from driving around a lot. Just thought I'd mention that because tens of millions of people have more dangerous jobs, but aren't allowed to use that as an excuse to kill people any time they get nervous.

Loggers can be happiest workers but still it's one of the deadliest jobs

Aircraft pilots are right after roofers? Da fuuu?

Would be interesting to see the % male of these jobs, from the looks of it I would estimate well over 80%, probably closer to 90%.

Logging being on top makes sense, that seems inherently dangerous even with much improved safety standards (wonder how high it was 100 years ago too).

I think there are also included pilots of small single engine planes.

They're not even on the list as BLS rate data lumps cops into either Federal, State, or Local government workers.

www.bls.gov/iif/fatal-injuries-tables.htm#rates

I've seen them on other lists. Being a cop is more dangerous than the average job, but nowhere near being one of the most dangerous. And, as already mentioned, the overwhelming majority of deaths are due to vehicular accidents.

I don't doubt it, but if you exclude accidents, I suspect the fatality rates would look different for other occupations as well. Looking at the BLS data, one quarter of all logging deaths in 2021 were also vehicular accidents.

The FBI statistics seem to indicate that more officers died from felonious assault with a firearm in 2021 (61) than from vehicular accidents (32 in crashes and 20 struck by a vehicle as a pedestrian.)

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If you pull out their rates of assault where they don't die, the job starts sounding a lot more dangerous, even if a lot of those "assaults" are bullshit.

Being a cop is genuinely dangerous, and the fact that it's not in the top ten most fatal jobs doesn't make it safe any more than Scottie Pippen not being one of the top ten greatest basketball players of all time makes him a mediocre player.

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I imagine these are on-the-job deaths.

I’d LOVE to see just the deadliest profession overall regardless of how they died.

The most dangerous jobs in America are POTUS and rapper

Grade school student is probably higher on the list.

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