America's Most Dangerous Jobs

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The Most Life-Threatening Jobs

Fishers and related fishing workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 118.4
Average salary: $29,000 per year

Logging workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 92.9
Average salary: $31,290 per year

Aircraft pilots and flight engineers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 66.9
Average salary: $135,040

Structural iron and steel workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 55.6
Average salary: $43,540

Refuse and recyclable material collectors
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 43.8
Average salary: $30,160

Farmers and ranchers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 41.1
Average salary: $39,720

Electrical power-line installers and repairers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 32.7
Average salary: $49,200

Truck drivers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 29.1
Average salary: $35,460 (for heavy or tractor-trailer drivers)

Miscellaneous agricultural workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 23.2
Average salary: $24,140

Construction laborers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 22.7
Average salary: $29,050

Jobs That Could Make You Sick

The following industries had the highest reported illness rates:

1. Light truck and utility vehicle manufacturing: 701.5 illnesses per 10,000 workers
2. Animal slaughtering, except poultry: 478.8 illnesses per 10,000 workers
3. Automobile manufacturing: 320.6 illnesses per 10,000 workers
4. Cut stock, resawing lumber and planning: 276.4 illnesses per 10,000 workers
5. Motor vehicle air-conditioning manufacturing: 235 illnesses per 10,000 workers

Source: MSN Careers