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chapter: Employee safety requirement
Logging is one of the most dangerous occupations
Rank
Job/Occupation
Deaths
per 100.000
1
Timber-cutters
and loggers 129.0
2
Airplane
pilots
97.0
6
Fire
fighters
48.8
8
Truck
drivers
39.6
12
Minors
37.5
25
Police
and detectives
17.5
70
Editors
and reporters
3.6
(Abstracted from the study "Job-related deaths in 347 Occupations
by J Paul Leigh, San Jose State University.)
Total
cases
Lost
worday cases
Lost
wordays
Logging
camps and contractors
19.1
12.6
293.0
Mining
7.4
4.1
125.0
Transport
and public utilities
8.2
4.8
102.1
Manufacturing
10.6
4.7
85.2
Service
5.3
2.5
43.0
OSHA writes: "However, even the BLS incidence rates underestimate
the severity of logging accidents because fatalities are not included
among lost workday cases and do not contribute to lost workdays totals.
Logging injuries are frequently of the most severe nature, many times
resulting in death."
(OSHA estimates a fatality incidence rate of 110 per 100.000 workers,
compared with 27,6 for the mining industry, in 1983.)