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Convience store clerk. Or maybe just was back when crackmonsters used the stores for ATMs.

Riding in Lee24"s wake.....?????

I have always believed that crop dusting has to be rather high on the list of occupations that could get you killed.

M Bell

Gynecologist.

This wuz a bit dicey at times.

Last weekend my hunting buddy and I were driving back to Rapid City from the Pierre gunshow. Just about to Midland SD when I noticed a couple of guys working in the top of a microwave tower 300-400 ft up in a 10 mph or so wind. Made my hair stand on end just looking at it.Thought plowing snow sucked in a blizzard but its a piece a cake compared to that. magnum Man

Same to you, Hawk Driver. You guys always came when needed, no matter how hot.

Commercial deep sea divers ranks right up there, too.

L.W.

Mink,

That is some crazy stuff!

MGunns

In the 70's - was a protective services worker in an inner city -going in child abuse cases after hours- it was ugly - almost ate it several times and you do not forget babies and kids with burns and hair torn out, especially when they resist leaving the only home they know, even when they are bleeding in front of you.
a worker in our area just was killed last month.

Indeed, saw that video years ago. Something I would never even attempt.

A bit long, but you get the idea after a minute or two. Nothing like working on a floating potential bomb.

Air tanker Pilots. (Borate Bombers)

Smokejumpers falling out of 80 foot trees; this where most serious injuries used to occur.

Unless you solidly hang-up with the canopy solidly over the top of the tree, it can slip off and you'll drop like a rock to the ground (hard on legs and ankles).

For let-downs, they now use tensioners so that if the let-down rope slips, it will lock. Previously, you had to feed the rope through your hands and if it slipped,you'd drop.

Of course, you'd have to climb back up the tree to pull, cut and un-snag the parachute from the tree once the fire was out, and guys would fall here too. It was tough swinging a Pulaski with one hand while balancing on a tree limb without a rope to tie yourself to the tree.

I always heard actuaries rate roofing as the most dangerous job.

Pretty Close, go home to your wife with crabs...

Bull ridin' ranks mighty close to the top. Pay is lousy, too, for most of 'em.

Insurance Adjuster...

Try telling little old ladies they're not getting their leaky roofs fixed.

Don't know "most", but here in logging country it's considered pretty damn dangerous.

Having cut down thousands of trees myself (mostly small, some big, none huge) I concur. Everything about it- from the tool to the terrain- will get ya.