10 Most Dangerous Jobs

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released data on dangerous occupations. The findings are presented as a fatal work injury rate, which calculates deaths per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers. The data also includes the total number of fatalities in a year for each occupation.

Industry Week has deemed the jobs the “10 most dangerous” of 2018. The data is based on 2016 incidents.

10. Grounds Maintenance Workers—17.4 fatal work injury rate; 217 fatalities

9. Supervisors of Construction Workers—18.0 fatal work injury rate; 134 fatalities

8. Farmers, ranchers, and agricultural managers—23.1 fatal work injury rate; 260 fatalities

7. Truck drivers and other drivers—24.7 fatal work injury rate; 918 fatalities

6. Structural iron and steel workers—25.1 fatal work injury rate; 16 fatalities

5. Refuse and recyclable material collectors—34.1 fatal work injury rate; 31 fatalities

4. Roofers—48.6 fatal injury work rate; 101 fatalities

3. Aircraft pilots and flight engineers—55.5 fatal work injury rate; 75 fatalities

2. Fishers and related fishing workers—86.0 fatal work injury rate; 24 fatalities

1. Logging workers—135.9 fatal injury work rate; 91 fatalities

Sources: Industry Week, Department of Labor