oh holy jesus in heaven
we raise our voices to you and ask that you watch over the badged class of the official crime syndicate, for it appears that these psychotic thugs have finally cracked the top ten of the BLS highest-fatality-rate chart (.PDF)! (yayyy!)
yes, after years of resting on the popularly accepted delusion that the badged “public servants” (ha!) — who boss their moral and intellectual superiors around as would a salty SS guard — hold the top of the most-fatal list, they’ve eked into the bottom, edging out “Construction laborers” and “Taxi drivers and chauffeurs”. using the new hours-based method, however, the mythical righteous goons (“Police and sheriff’s patrol officers”) are again knocked back to their usual place: not in the top ten (despite a reclassification in 2003 removing detectives from the pool, thus raising fatality rates for the class statistically while they generally decreased across the field).
using either method, “Refuse and recyclable material collectors” have a higher fatality rate than the parasites (shocker). for your viewing fun, the 2007 top twelve highest fatality jobs (employment-based, not hours-based):
| 1Hours-based fatality rate | 2Employment-based fatality rate | |
| Fishers and related fishing workers | 109.5 | 111.8 |
| Logging workers | 89.1 | 86.4 |
| Aircraft pilots and flight engineers | 70.6 | 70.7 |
| Structural iron and steel workers | 47.8 | 45.5 |
| Farmers and ranchers | 36.0 | 39.5 |
| Roofers | 33.4 | 29.4 |
| Electrical power-line installers and repairers | 27.6 | 29.1 |
| Driver/sales workers and truck drivers | 26.1 | 28.2 |
| Refuse and recyclable material collectors | 24.0 | 22.8 |
| Police and sheriff’s patrol officers | 19.8 | 21.8 |
| Construction laborers | 20.8 | 19.5 |
| Taxi drivers and chauffeurs | 19.4 | 18.9 |
1 The rate represents the number of fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers and were calculated as:
(N/EH) x 200,000,000 where
N = number of fatal injuries
EH = total hours worked by all employees during the calendar year
200,000,000 = base for 100,000 equivalent full-time workers (working 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year)2 The rate represents the number of fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 employed workers and was calculated as
follows: (N/W) x 100,000, where N = the number of fatal work injuries, and W = the number of employed workers.
source: http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfoi_rates_2007h.pdf