Tradewind
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must be the folks on that other forum keeping the stats so high...
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SD_Prairie_Goat
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What I'm reading is men are good at dying on the job and women are good at avoid it. Probably more to do with the number of women in those top listed roles, but still statically interesting how few women die on the job overall.
BAKPAKR
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I got out of #1 at a relatively young age after seeing a few bad accidents…
So far, I have only lost the end of a finger with #2.
44hunter45
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I call B.S.
Figure don't lie, but lairs figure.
Figure don't lie, but lairs figure.
Flatbrimmer
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Let’s hear the story?
BAKPAKR
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That was the most excitement we had on a Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness (Idaho) moose hunt that ended before it really started due to a forest fire that closed access to my dad’s moose area and a bight of rope connected to a mule that I pulled through the window of the stock trailer while loading the animals the morning after we turned away from the trailhead road.
Watch out for those ropes! I was lucky I didn’t loose all of my fingers. Fortunately, it didn’t hurt too badly and we were able to drive through Missoula and on to Coeur d’Alene before getting medical attention.
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I think the commercial fishing runs the numbers up quite a bit. (IE deadliest catch)
No doubt it's mostly men doing the physically dangerous work, I've been around 2 fatalities when I was in the mining industry. It's not a good day for anybody at the plant and always something simple that would have avoided the death in the first place.
I've been at a power plant for the last 19 years, no fatality at my plant since '72 when two journeyman mechanics were burned alive after a steam line blew.
No doubt it's mostly men doing the physically dangerous work, I've been around 2 fatalities when I was in the mining industry. It's not a good day for anybody at the plant and always something simple that would have avoided the death in the first place.
I've been at a power plant for the last 19 years, no fatality at my plant since '72 when two journeyman mechanics were burned alive after a steam line blew.
The logging workers usually holds multiple categories underneath it and the urban tree pruning and removal section is scary when you read stats. There are large items flying through the sky all day with people working on the ground, chainsaws inches from the body way up in a windy tree, and tripping hazards galore. Those damn lawn ornaments will mess a guy up carrying a heavy log.
My mother gets nervous when I go hunting solo, I don’t think she really understands what I do. She has only seen me at competitions and I think she prefers to keep it that way.
It’s not a good job to bring outside stressors into it. There are a lot of days when a jobsite therapy session is necessary to keep people from getting hurt.
My mother gets nervous when I go hunting solo, I don’t think she really understands what I do. She has only seen me at competitions and I think she prefers to keep it that way.
It’s not a good job to bring outside stressors into it. There are a lot of days when a jobsite therapy session is necessary to keep people from getting hurt.
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You are in a flat out dangerous line of work, an inlaw relation who was an arborist was killed and the husband of a friend of my wife. who was an arborist is on disability. I know we all think nothing's going to happen to us, but my advice as an old grump is think of finding something else.
In six of the top ten!
Nick87
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3 for me.
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Meh those numbers are shit. Look at the airplane pilot that high of a death rate is guys flying cubs into some nasty places it isn’t 747 going down. That death was probably also doubled up into the hunting fishing group. We landed this fall in ak on a fairly big commercial plane and flew over a wrecked cub that they were trying to bring in under the fog a couple days prior. With my job also making the list I’d say it’s like anything else in life and as dangerous as you make it. Work with experienced guys and don’t cut corners I’ve had some dicey days but for the most part it’s just another day
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They do but for convince sake fishing and hunting guides get lumped into that category so an outfitter pays insurance as if you’re working a commercial vessel.
In the woods it’s cable that kills most people, everything else just maims you. Actually anything on a logging site can kill you but it’s cable that results in most deaths.
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Djfan
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My former boss was widowed when her late husband was working at the mill. A piece of wood flew out of the saw, flying far across the room, hitting him in the back of the neck. Dead instantly. You never know what might happen. He was no where near the mill at the time.
I always thought farming was in these kinds of lists.
I interned at a steel mill. Had a guy decide to eat lunch under the tire of slab hauler. Fell asleep and that was that. I interned 2 summers and saw countless other incidents that could have resulted in fatalities. Grew up farming so was around dangerous situations but the steel mill was head and shoulders more dangerous.
I interned at a steel mill. Had a guy decide to eat lunch under the tire of slab hauler. Fell asleep and that was that. I interned 2 summers and saw countless other incidents that could have resulted in fatalities. Grew up farming so was around dangerous situations but the steel mill was head and shoulders more dangerous.
Hem
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Friend of mine lost a thumb and the tendon connected to his elbow from a rope incident.
