The data displays preliminary data for the top 10 occupations by fatal work injury deaths per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers in the United States in 2016. In 2016, the highest occupational injury death rate was to be found among logging workers with a rate of 135.9 deaths per 100,000 workers.
Logging workers | 135.9 |
Fishers and related fishing workers | 86 |
Aircraft pilots and flight engineers | 55.5 |
Roofers | 48.6 |
Refuse and recyclable material collectors | 34.1 |
Structural iron and steel workers | 25.1 |
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers | 24.7 |
Farmers, ranchers, and other agriculture managers | 23.1 |
First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers | 18 |
Grounds maintenance workers | 17.4 |