Don't tell your wife, but..

Lakeside53 · Dec 30, 2006

"Top 10 dangerous occupations in America

Occupational hazard is a fact of life and we accept it. But there are jobs out there where the danger of you not coming back home at the end of your shift is very real. These are the most dangerous jobs in America.

1. Timber cutters and loggers lead the pack with a mortality rate that is 30 times higher than that for normal jobs. Loggers are risk of being seriously hurt by heavy objects. Their jobs involve cutting, shaping, and moving heavy lumber. The fatality rate is a high 118 deaths every 100,000 people. Cuts, lacerations, sprains, torn ligaments and ruptured muscles are common occurrences even though logging companies try their best to maintain safety standards. High accident rates also mean more claims to pay for the companies."

Here are the other 9...

http://www.moneychump.org/?p=3

blis · Dec 30, 2006

hum... i wonder if i will survive till im 20 years without loosing fingers or something, since i log and work summers and holidays at construction site...

IchWarriorMkII · Dec 30, 2006

Number 6 on the list...

Getting fed through a swather is probably as much fun as being fed through a wood chipper

opcorn:

Stay Alert, Stay Alive.

I don't think 'safe' jobs would be near as fun :spam:

Trigger-Time · Dec 30, 2006

Well my hobby's are #1 and #6, have done #6 all of my life. Dad put
me on a tractor before I could reach the clutch and brakes, raking
hay at a fast idle, need to stop push the kill switch son.

Rotax Robert · Dec 30, 2006

1,4,6 and 7 Looks like I'm a goner

Rotax

sugarbush · Dec 30, 2006

No. 7

many fall's from 30 year's residential/ commercial roofing and sheet metal. (still daily pain from a 28 foot fall when a ladder broke, 30 year's ago).never burnt bad with hot asphalt we worked with but seen many that were. So i got into something safer-- CHAINSAW'S.

umpkin2:

Woodie · Dec 30, 2006

Was in the Stihl store two weeks ago, guy there said here in Michigan we've lost SEVEN loggers/arborists just this year alone. THAT was a wake-up call.

Madsaw · Dec 30, 2006

Here is a shot of number 6's work. 1800 first calf heifer. She got scartched up teat by some wire. I was trying to be nice and put salve on it to keep it soft. 6 hits later I took 1 on the right thigh, 1 in the stomach and 3 in the left lower thigh just above the knee. Week later I finally went and got checked for blood cloats. The doc said she never knew a person's body could turn so many colors and be that bruised from the lower stomach to the ankle. That was in july 2005. I still have a scare tissue lump in my leg that they want to cut out. Nope no thanks it can stay.
Oh I have farmed full time since my schoolin but started when I was 16. So, 18 years so far with this being the worse injury.
Bob

Rotax Robert · Dec 30, 2006

Ouch on that one madsaw, My lift partner took one just like it, darn near killed him. He got a real bad blood clot from from his beating.

Rotax

Jacob J. · Dec 30, 2006

That's why the current SAIF tax on cutters is 37 cents on every payroll dollar.

Trigger-Time · Dec 30, 2006

Madsaw said:
Here is a shot of number 6's work. 1800 first calf heifer. She got scartched up teat by some wire. I was trying to be nice and put salve on it to keep it soft. 6 hits later I took 1 on the right thigh, 1 in the stomach and 3 in the left lower thigh just above the knee. Week later I finally went and got checked for blood cloats. The doc said she never knew a person's body could turn so many colors and be that bruised from the lower stomach to the ankle. That was in july 2005. I still have a scare tissue lump in my leg that they want to cut out. Nope no thanks it can stay.
Oh I have farmed full time since my schoolin but started when I was 16. So, 18 years so far with this being the worse injury.
Bob

You need to get a squeeze chute!

windthrown · Dec 30, 2006

Farming/sawyering

Squeeze chute indeed. We raise sheep here, but they are primitive breeds. The girlfriend prefers sheep with horns (on the ewes too). I prefer the polled ones and there is much higher demand for sheep w/o the pointy things on their heads that stab and bruise. My girlfriend (or pseudo-wife as my brother calls her) gets so bruised up I am afraid she will go to a doctor and he will think I am beating on her or something

Anyway, I do #6 and #1 here on the homestead. Farming and sawyering 105 acers of pasture/timber. I did semi-#2 down in Reedsport (salmon) when I was 30 years younger. Oregon is not Alaska, but it it rough with very high seas out there. Got out after a cannery strike shut us down. Then I did #4 & #7 before and during my years in college along with semi-#1 as a landscaper/arborist (not really mentioned). Then I had a desk job as an engineer for 15 years, which is how I got here... (laid off when my job was off-shored to India). :cry:

But hey, I am 30 lb lighter and at my fighting weight again. I will probably live longer than I would have behind the desk designing computers to read and write posts on tree butcher forums with.

Madsaw · Dec 30, 2006

This was a dairy cow. I milk for a livin. When she started to kick I put my back against the stanchions and braced myself. She kicked forward and got me with the point of the hoof trying to drag me down. The doc said if it was a hair more to my left I would have probally had my knee ripped up. I finally got her let loose and she left the barn. If it was my wife or my aunt she would have killed them. I knew the only way I was going to live through that beating was staying up right. She calfed about 3 months before that. She is still on the farm going to calf again soon. I am thinking of shipping her on her marry way in about a week.
Bob

IchWarriorMkII · Dec 30, 2006

That sucks...

I got caught in a horse trailer with an 900 lbs steer that started to kick the hell out of me. I took three blows before I did some kind of Jackie Chan flying kick over his ass end to escape. Nothing near as bad as what your looked like.

I did see a guy get kicked in the knee from a steer, that required surgery to put back together.

My closest call was a missed kick that came up between my legs, I was *just* far enough away I got tapped on the coveralls... I thank the Good Lord for that extra 2 inches of clearance I gave that steer :bowdown:

I think later that day I slipped climbing over a gate and racked myself... but that was weak to what a hoof was gonna do to the 'boys'

SteveH · Dec 30, 2006

Number three. I consider the chainsaw, though, riskier than the airplane, if I am not completely mentally alert as to what I'm doing. The result of the screwup/inattention can be much more instantaneous with the saw. Of course, I do both all the time.

Canyon Angler · Dec 30, 2006

I thought commercial fishing was the most dangerous job...

Oh, well, I guess we'll have to duke it out another year... :blob5:

HEAVY FUEL · Jan 1, 2007

1,4,5,6 & 9. I guess I better not go to work tommorrow. I'll stay home and ride my Tri-Z 250 3 wheeler. There is some reason they outlawed them,:sword:

brian660 · Jan 2, 2007

that list isn`t quite right roughnecks are nowhere on it, crab fishermen have been #1 for something like 19 out of the last 23 years and loggers and roughnecks swap places #2 and #3.

doc874 · Jan 2, 2007

Don't tell wife

Well i've done #'s 1, 2 & 3 along with paratrooper. Comming from Newfoundland here on the east coast i grew up with fishing, usually 2-5 km off shore in a 18-20 foot wooden boat with an inboard ( what we called a one lunger ) engine, pulling nets by hand. A few close calls of going over the side tangled in some mesh. A few twisted ankles and knees from jumping out of aircraft ( thought it was safer to jump than land in some of them ) Started cutting wood for the house at about 14 yrs old using an old Mac 10-10 and man was it heavy, i could cut about two trees than have to take a break. Dropped a tree on my younger brother once, no physical damage.

Most dangerous thing cutting wood was my uncles horse tried to kick me on many occasions and the SOB would bite given the chance to get at you, the darn thing never did like to leave the barn on a cold day then after some advancements in technology i got a Honda Big Red trike 250c ( Ain't no danger there!) Now, i like to work on small engines and although they whine, its not near as much whining as some of the patients i've treated. Lol. I know the medical job never made the list as well as police but, the most dangerous thing on the medical job was on numerous occasions, almost being hit by sight see'er's at the scene of collisions and getting needle prick from a contaminated needle which was a daily concern.

Doc

Sparky_NY · Jan 2, 2007

Notice that Police were not on list?

I constantly hear how dangerous a job being a police officer is. Here in a larger city, that job danger is the justification used for their ever increasing benefits and wages. I'm not anti-police, quite the contrary. I have several friends that are police. My argument is that yes, there is the "potential" for it being a very dangerous job, but in reality there are very few actual incidents. A logger got killed here in NY state just this past week, got pinned between a rolling log and a skidder.

PS.... I wouldn't be a good idea to bring this up next time you are trying to get out of a traffic ticket.

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