12 Most Dangerous Jobs in the Country

Do you work in one of these, or know someone who does? In general, there is a work-related death every 96 minutes, and these 12 jobs have the most.

We’ve all seen or heard of those signs telling employees how many days it’s been since an employee was injured. It’s all about promoting safety in the workplace. This is because there are those jobs that come with higher-than-normal risks for injury and even death.

Whether it’s hazardous working conditions, working with heavy equipment, physically demanding jobs that are labor-intensive or jobs that can expose employees to harmful substances, work injuries are sure to happen and can even be fatal.

According to the Visual Capitalist website, the United States sees nearly 5,500 fatalities every year, making these jobs the most dangerous in the country, with a worker dying every 96 minutes from a work-related injury.

• Logging
• Roofers
• Fishing
• Hunting
• Construction
• Steel Workers
• Flight Engineers
• Airflight Pilots
• Delivery and Truck Drivers
• On-the-Road Sales
• Underground Mining Machine Operators
• Electrical Power Line Workers

These stats don’t even include the number of minor and major on-the-job injuries.

According to Forbes Magazine, under the workers’ compensation laws across most of the country, employees don’t even need to prove employer negligence to receive payment for injuries that happened while working. This includes payments for not just lost wages if you have to take time off, but medical bills as well.

This list of the most dangerous and deadliest jobs comes from the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics as of December 2023. They’re based on the number of fatal work injuries per 100,000 full-time workers.

While most of these jobs see less than 100 deaths annually, roofers see more than a hundred each year, while delivery and truck drivers see more than a thousand annually, according to Forbes Magazine.