Trucking among most fatal occupations, according to federal report

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{"text":"Among all occupations in the U.S., driving a truck is one of the most dangerous, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statisitics’ fatal occupational injuries report.\n\nOn Tuesday, Dec. 17, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released official numbers of occupational fatalities for 2018. Broadly speaking, driver/sales workers and truck drivers had the most fatalities compared with other groups with 966 deaths.\n\nRead more: https://landline.media/trucking-among-most-fatal-occupations-according-to-federal-report/  ","videos":"[]","link":"{}","pics":"[]","canComment":true,"externalShare":false}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"Old data, but it has a breakdown of what causes the high fatalities.\n\nhttps://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfar0023.pdf\n\nfrom this site:\nhttps://www.osha.gov/SLTC/trucking_industry/safetyinfo.html\n\n\"Knestaut, A. Compensation and Working Conditions, (Fall 1997). Identifies truck driving (From 1992 to 1995) as having the most fatalities of all occupations, accounting for 12 percent of all worker deaths. About two-thirds of the fatally injured truckers were involved in highway crashes. Truck drivers also had more nonfatal injuries (over 151,000) than workers in any other occupation in 1995. Half of the nonfatal injuries were serious sprains and strains; this may be attributed to the fact that many truck drivers must unload the goods they transport.\"","replyToPid":0}

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794377 发表于 2019-12-22 00:14:04 They must have only polled company’s like swift

","text":"That’s probably what they did, just the large companies, the funny thing about that in my opinion is, you’re guaranteed to see more wrecks from Swift, prime, CRST, C.R. England because they have such large fleets, but their safety scores probably aren’t that bad because they have so many trucks, if that makes sense?","replyToPid":288743}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"How is this news?  It's been in the top 10 fatal list since labor statistics were first collected.  The funny part is police and firefighters do NOT make the top 10 list.","replyToPid":0}

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794377 发表于 2019-12-21 23:38:02 Hmmn guess they never heard of forestry

","text":"Or working on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier ","replyToPid":288711}

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794377 发表于 2019-12-22 00:03:31 Sounds dangerous

","text":"It’s not, not dangerous, it’s pretty frickin crazy and awesome all at the same time. There are tons of dangerous jobs out there, definitely more than trucking. I’m not sure where trucking managed to make its way on a list, I’d much rather be driving my truck than being the construction worker in a work zone with truck drivers flying by with their feet up on the dash, know what I mean ","replyToPid":288737}

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794377 发表于 2019-12-22 01:13:16 Makes perfect sense if you had 10 trucks and only one accident it would be the same as having 1000 trucks with 100 accidents

","text":"Exactly ","replyToPid":288779}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"I think they’re just looking at overall fatalities reported per industry. Their Eld idea is making it worse instead of better probably ","replyToPid":0}