Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Most Dangerous Jobs in the U.S. - Fun to list those that you have lived through.

I am in the throws of building 14 of these modules with 2000 Korean craftsmen and women. We are not hurting anyone, knock on wood, but it takes tremendous amount of effort to keep the site working safely.

Flight Engineer/Crew Chief/Door Gunner.

1/2 of my AIT class have died on those aircraft. I consider myself lucky.

They left off shallow water treasure salvage. #2 and 3 aren't that risky and their pay analysis is BS. Treasure salvage is seriously hazardous labor and the pay is fer chitt. Fun for awhile though.

Another they missed is a niche profession, that of a circus cat juggler. How about drug kingpin? Phuoc, Crossfire is right, is all BS.

farming
roofing
driving
logging

The funny thing is I am police officer and people think that is dangerous. It sort of puts things in perspective.

I have worked a couple of those jobs, but they left off one other, being married to a woman who is crazy. (My ex wife) When you are in love, you can't see schit!

After my best friend and I turned 18, we used have a couple of cocktails with his dad, and he would try to educate us, "boys remember one thing, all women are crazy, some are just [bleep] crazier" Marriage is dangerous he would say, course, he was twice divorced at that time.

Fishing and fish packing. Most of the injuries I saw were fatigue induced. Those little electric forklifts and slimy concrete floors made a dangerous situation. I turned over a whole pallet of blue crabs once, had anyone been under that it would have killed them.

There is a genuine distinction. What happens to Lawmen is generally due to sheer MALICE. There are more dangerous jobs, but there generally is no human malice in their dangers. That is what sets it apart.

They've obviously never worked on a buoy deck in the Bering Sea.

Farming
Military (combat zone)
Government employee on flight status in military aircraft
Disaster relief first responder

Navy fighter pilot for 21 years.

Gunner

Lotsa legos needed here for sure Ed.

Gunner

Farming, Trucking and traveling, it's all cake if a man keeps his head outta his butt.

Gunner

They left out one, the Coal Mining Business, I worked for two years in the Coal Business in the 70's . I worked 6 miles under ground coal mining and drove a coal truck on a strip mining job for a year. I personally have lost a few friends who died in the coal mines over the years. Mining isn't the safest job you can work at .

It's da gas dat'l get ya in da mines.

Gunner

That one seems a mite high to me too.

In that it reflects the actual number of annual deaths, I'd guess that it is accurate.
But still, there certainly are jobs with greater potential for harm. The danger from these is set off by skilled labor practices, and enforcement of safety initiatives.

The construction trades aren't what they used to be, either for danger or for intelligence. The dumb used to die young...

Fishing held the title for years but has got much safer. I believe the rate was 200+ per 100,000 (70s & early 80s.) and the Bering Sea fishery was responsible for more than it's share.

Marriage should have been the Number One Job Hazard .

The most dangerous thing in the mines is fine coal dust floating in the air , your are working in a can of 4 f BlackPowder, that is why you rock dust everything.

I fell three times as a roofer and sider. One of those should have killed me, another broke my back. Even without nerve damage it took two years to fully recover.

This was residential work. It's hard to believe that, due to the low pay without benefits and high hazard, a house can even get build nowadays.