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Where does the 17% Homocide violence fit in? I understand the animals.

I read that as not only homicide but other than accidental deaths inflicted by a person or animal and as not specific to any one job but across all. A death by hands or horns type category.

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And 40 years of this:


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I've been farming since about 1973. The equipment hasn't gotten me (yet) but I've had several run ins with livestock that have left marks. Then there was the stepladder that slipped while I was halfway out a roof hatch, tore up both shoulders as I came down through.

Dale

Done 10, 9, 8, 7, and 4.
Had several broken bones, some due to "fun"
Had a shoulder rebuilt last year, and will have the other rebuilt this year - due to animal issues.

Mark

You've only done half of them and only half dead... guess that means your halfway smart...

Kent

And I bet you've never T-Boned a cotton truck either.

Gunner

I worked in and around the Log Woods for just over 20 years ... Logged from SoCal to AK and back. Also Worked in the Redwoods both near Yosemite and on the NoCal Coast. From Horse Logging to Heli-logging and all in-between. Planted trees some winters and even worked in a few Mills.

When my Father was selling life insurance I remember his company would not insure two professions. 'Lumber Jack, Pacific NW & Motor Cycle Policemen' ...

I worked briefly in the Casting dept at the solder factory-- got to wear the reflective suit and hood. That was fun.

However, I'd say my most dangerous job was having to walk into a fat lady's cubicle while she was in the throes of PMS and having a bad Word Perfect day. Those women get mighty testy. I once likened it to trying to sharpen a lawnmower blade with the engine running.

Not that it was farming or ranching so much, but we just flew a gal out Friday night that got bucked off her horse.... no one had seen her for 1.5 hours...

While we kept her alive until the helo got on the ground, and she is still alive today, the prognosis almost certainly will end up being a fatality.

Livestock just like anything else, you have to be careful around.

Yet I still say its more dangerous, odds wise, to drive over to the farm to ride the horses...

Roads are simply dangerous. The closest I"ve come to being killed in our volunteer fire department has alwasy been at wreck scenes on teh road... folks don't have a clue what flashing lights mean... and they'll run you over rubber necking the wreck...

Limbs that break off, dead tops that come loose when the tree goes over, and barber chairs are all common causes of timber faller injuries or deaths. Rolling equipment over on it's top also gets a few.
A big madrone barber chaired on a guy I knew in high school, and another guy I cut timber with a few times (with 20+ years exp.) got killed by a limb.

Yep! The only pilot in America that cut an 18 wheeler in half....flew off...and lived to tell about it!! God has been good to me!

HAHAHAHAHA Hell Yeah he has.

Gunner

Yup, that would start drawing a serious amount of vacuum too.

Gunner

it can make yer poosie pucker......

BUH-HUH. lol

Gunner

Changing some glass on an energized 230kv transmission line.

I reckon that kinda fits into agricultural manager right? That's my point. For every professional working with livestock and implements of husbandry, there are a hundred methheads working in a slaughterhouse.

Fook dem HIGH-V ceramics Bro, laketricty makes me nervous.

Gunner