Occupations with high fatal work injury rates in the United States in 2016

Occupations with high fatal work injury rates in the U.S. in 2016

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