The Bureau of Labor Statistics has its fascinatingly ghoulish fatality census report out ! Are you a handler of some sort ? Watch your back , because the written report says if you die on the job , there ’s a 10 % fortune it ’s murder .
That ’s correct . Out of the4,547 work deaths in 2010 , 10 % of the kaput management was a lineal result of homicide . Gulp . We have sex it ’s an American tradition to despise your bosses ( except at Gizmodo ! Hey guy rope ! ) , but 10 % seems quite high ! But possibly it ’s dependable to get offed than to go as a boss from falling ( 9 % ) or being “ struck by an target ” ( 12 % ) . What form of place are these people managing ? Insane sanctuary ? Explosion factory ?
Now , we ’ll bust down the rest of the room you might soon die if you ’re not management :
Overall , “ Transportation and material moving occupations”—people who work operating vehicles — dominated the death listing , with 1,115 killed on the Book of Job . Only seven percent of them were dispatch .
The 45 - 54 twelvemonth - old angle bracket made up the plurality of deaths , with a full tail . 16 % of them plummeted to their dying .
The deadliest country to work in ? Texas , with 456 human death . The safe ? New Hampshire , with only 5 . West Virginia won the blowup death contest , with 34 — likely from all that coal minelaying , which is extremely dangerous and plosion - prone .
The most potential agency to become flat ? An old fashioned car accident—968 on the Book of Job death . 45 doer drop dead from “ contact lens with temperature extremes , ” which sounds especially dreadful . 93 died from just falling down on the ground . 224 died after being “ caught in or compressed by equipment or objects , ” which to me sounds like easily the most grisly and terrible . Wait , scratch that — the fact that 258 people shoot down themselves at work is simply horrendous . Ugh .
There are n’t any figure for on-line technical school writers , but I suspect the leading case of death would be excessively - bruise elbows sustain during MacBook courser maneuvering , or over - energize touchpad detent - induce insta - death from over - photo to cat videos . [ BLSviaConsumerist ]
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