California Business Minute™

Hi, I am Tim Johnson and welcome to the California Business Minute.

All jobs have some inherent risk.  However, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and
the US Dept of Labor report that there are 5,840 work related fatalities in the
latest report in 2006 in the work place with an average worker fatality rate at
4 deaths per 100,000.

The following ranks the deadliest jobs in the nation by deaths per 100,000 and
then in parenthesis, the number of deaths in that category for 2006.

MOST DEADLY JOBS IN AMERICA
1. Fishing                     147.2 (53 deaths)
2. Aircraft Pilots              90.4 (104 deaths)
3. Logging                      84.6 (66 deaths)
4. Iron & Steel Workers    61   (36 deaths)
5. Garbage Collectors      40.7 (37 deaths)
6. Farmers                      37.2 (292 deaths)
7. Electrical Pwr. Worker 34.9 (38 deaths)
8. Roofer                        33.5 (81 deaths)
9. Truck Drivers               27.5 (957 death)
10. Misc Ag Worker         22.2(16.2) 

I am Tim Johnson and this has been the California Business Minute.